“I freed myself from your father and thought everything would be better now.” After “A Woman’s Freedom,” Édouard Louis returns to his mother’s story. To a woman who has already freed herself once. From alcohol, violence, and shame, from silence. And whose story threatens to repeat itself when she calls her son one night while her new partner rudely berates her in the background. Step by step, the son plans her escape with her, a new beginning succeeds, but how does life go on when you have never learned freedom? The Nestroy Theatre Prize-winning director Sara Ostertag stages – for the first time at the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden – the continuation of Monique Bellegueule’s story.

Simon Dietersdorfer

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Sep 12, 2025

Monique breaks out: based on the book by Édouard Louis · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

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