Maria Stuart - Premiere in Aachen

This premiere of *Maria/Stuart* brings Jason Grote's darkly comic play to Aachen. Inspired by Friedrich Schiller's tale of warring queens, the story follows an unhappy family grappling with their collective past. Attendees can expect a comically dark escapade into suburban secrets, where a German-babbling, soda-guzzling shapeshifter unlocks family skeletons.

The play centers on three generations of fierce women—Ruthie, the matriarchal grandmother; rival sisters Marnie and Lizzie; nutty Aunt Sylvia; and cousins Hannah and Stuart. As Stuart approaches his big break as a comic book artist, the family's buried truths emerge. Eccentrically comic and eerily haunting, this supernatural twist on Schiller's classic explores how far a family will go to keep the past dead and buried.