Deutschlandfunk Kultur: The Radio Play “Goldmädchen” by Sebastian David – Median

What if humans could do something to achieve absolute perfection? Or if its outstanding quality is dominant beyond all measure? Sebastien David plays through four similar scenarios in his radio play golden girlwhich was organized by Anouschka Trocker for Saarländischer Rundfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

It is about four women who can no longer escape their abilities or influence, which are spreading out in gigantic proportions. On the one hand there is the golden girl from the title, the woman working in a bank. And the desire to be perfect in her job and in her life means that she eventually turns everything she touches into gold. Also her secretary, also little by little her body when you touch.

The second wife is a failed writer and a big skeptic. There are dozens of versions of her scripts for the stage, she can’t decide which one is the right one, the best, which one to submit to theaters and publishers. At some point, the first doppelgangers appear and then more and more of them. The number of possibilities, versions of texts and attitudes towards this is growing exponentially. Is there still an origin, a source? And if not, is that bad?

Biggest dream? Being a pixel in Kurt Cobain’s music video!

Number Three is dead, but he’s being dug from her grave – and celebrated by the living. Zombies, the living think it’s cool, they adore it, the person is very happy to become a fan of such a person. Thus the (non)dead woman, who longs so much for life, is not seen as a human being by the living, but only as a projection surface.

Finally, the fourth woman, who goes so deep into digital realms that she becomes a pixel, also disappears from real life. This brings her very close to her childhood idol Kurt Cobain, as she smuggles herself into one of his music videos and becomes a blob right next to him. But what kind of closeness is it if it is not combined with warmth and passion?

golden girl Live equally out of the comedy and tragedy of these four stories. The author-director is not very concerned with psychological modes of interpretation. Rather, they aim at social realities, which make them especially known through this complete exhaustion and distortion. And what consequences it has in the end, what sacrifices it demands when you’re chasing after what seems especially worth fighting for.

golden girlDLF Kultur, June 7, 2023 at 10:03 pm