Nino Kharatishvili’s latest novel to have stage premiere at Hamburg theatre

Author Nino Kharatishvili has won awards and critical acclaim for her literary work in Germany. Photo: Georgia Made by Characters.

Agenda.ge, 12 Apr 2019 - 17:46, Tbilisi,Georgia

The Cat and the General, the latest novel by award-winning German-based author Nino Kharatishvili will have its stage premiere at Hamburg’s Thalia Theatre this summer.

 

The German Book Prize-nominated work has been adapted for stage by Jette Steckel, winner of the 2007 Theatre Today Young Director of the Year Award and the 2011 Rolf Mares Prize for her production of Don Carlos at the Thalia Theatre.

 

The staging will debut in Hamburg in August, bringing to the stage Kharatishvili’s story of “people traumatised by war in many different ways”, in the words of the author.

 

Alexander Orlov, a Russian service member-turned oligarch who struggles to reconcile with memories of his service during the devastating war in Chechnya in the 1990s, is one of the protagonists of the story.

The Cat and the General’ will have its world premiere at the Thalia Theatre this summer: