The Marriage Of Maria Brown

ZKM Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia

2009

Directed and Set Design by Tea Alagić
Written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Translated by Alida Bremer
Choreographed by Marta Crnobrnja
Featuring Katarina Bistrović, Frano Masković, Suzana Nikolić, Krešimir Mikić, Zoran Čubrilo, Doris Sarić Kukuljica, Kristijan Ugrina, Urša Raukar, Edvin Liverić, Damir Šaban, Peter Leventić, Zdenka Marunčić, and Rajko Bundalo

Lighting Design: Jan Dekeyser
Costume Design: Doris Kristić
Sound Design: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Video Design: Ivan Marušić Klif

Photos by Slaven Vlasic

About the Work:
The Marriage of Maria Braun is a stage adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, bringing its portrait of postwar Germany into a live theatrical setting.

Separated from her soldier husband shortly after their wedding, Maria Braun reinvents herself as an independent and successful businesswoman. Her personal transformation mirrors Germany’s rise from wartime destruction to economic prosperity, revealing the compromises beneath public success and private desire.

Tea Alagić directed the production and designed its set.

AUTHOR

Tea Alagić

TEA ALAGIĆ is an internationally acclaimed Bosnian director, writer, producer, actor, and educator. Celebrated for her highly visual, physically dynamic approach, Tea draws on circus and trapeze training, the traditions of Jacques Lecoq, and immersive theatrical techniques to transform text into embodied ritual with bold theatricality. Critics have called her work “vivid, vital, and a lot of fun”, with The New York Times noting her ability to create “a vivid, very recognizable world”, and The New Yorker praising her direction in the North American premier of Elfriede Jelinek’s Jackie, highlighting her skill in finding “infinite variety in Jelinek’s long text… make this smashing of an old icon worth a visit.”

– The Marriage Of Maria Brown Part 2