Hanna, a washwoman who dreams of great heroic deeds, tousled and airy-fairy, doesn’t have an easy life.
Unmanageable clothespins, sneaky laundry lines, a washing basin with dizzying abysses and – most of all – a dirty and lazy pile of laundry can only be overcome with great cunning.
Hanna’s only gleam of hope is her book about the heroic deeds of Joan of Arc, which she devotedly reads during her breaks.
Yes! She would trade her lonely and exhausting life in a second for adventures, glory and honour. Dream and reality immingle, lose their boundaries. The washing trough becomes a warship, the pile of laundry the battle horse... even pants „come flying down from the skies“ and dub her knight: Long live Joan of ArPpo!
For lack of foreign conquerors she declares war on her bitterest enemy without further ado: the huge pile of dirty laundry.
Neither brawls nor drinking bouts, neither treachery nor cowardice can discourage the brave heroine, who – armed with pans and buckets – puts up a good fight.
But little people have a hard time in stepping out from someone’s shadow... and Hanna heroically drowns in her washing basin.
of Gardi Hutter, Ferruccio Cainero
Regie: Ferruccio Cainero
Photos: Adriano Heitmann
44 years tour - 4 solos - 4444 performances
HANNA, 44, clown, world-famous, has done her dirty laundry in 35 countries, from China to Mexico,
from Finland to Tunisia - to the amusement of the audience.
Hilarious, very human, very feminine: whether as a washerwoman, prompter, seamstress or mouse,
her wordless stories are tragic-comic metaphors for our hopeless struggle for happiness.
striving for happiness.
In all the confusion, there is only one certainty: Hanna is not fat - the mirror is too small.
Hanna is not old either, only the years are racing by. But GARDI HUTTER, her alter ego, i.e. older
ego, is over 70 and says: Basta! Once more all four, but then, at the end, it's over!
For the whole family, for expats and indoors, for city and country,
For grandparents, nieces, nephews and even the stressed-out ones in between.
Nothing connects more than laughing together.
