THE WALL

About the show

A woman finds herself in a hunting lodge in an Austrian forest. On a walk, she unexpectedly bumps her forehead against something hard and cold. From one day to the next, a glass wall suddenly cuts her off from the outside world. Behind the glass wall, she can make out the contours of civilization – but everything there has frozen in the middle of life. With only a dog, a cat, and a cow for company, she must learn to survive by adapting to the rhythms of nature. THE WALL is a disturbing robinsonade, a cruel dream about humans, nature, and civilization. It is an exploration of what happens when everything we consider to be our lives is replaced by nature and isolation. When we abandon our struggle to control and conquer nature. Both the nature that exists outside and the one that exists within our skin. The woman in the Austrian forest is not alone; she is part of nature's endless system. The Austrian author Marlen Haushofer wrote The Wall as a novel in 1963 and was awarded Austria's national literary prize for it.