“I don’t mind being the symbol of your decadence. That doesn’t mean, that you own me.”

Free Theatre presents The Cat Eleonore (7-10 May), the first English language translation and production of the award winning play by Caren Jess.

Eleonore is a 40 year old real estate agent who one day realises that she is actually a cat. Financially independent and single, nothing stands in the way of her transformation. She has a cat-fur sewn for her and gradually cuts herself off from human social contacts. In conversations with Dr. Wildbruch, a therapist who is fascinated by her case, it appears that Eleonore’s thinking and feeling also increasingly resembles that of a cat.

Playwright Caren Jess won the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis and the Mülheimer Theatertage Audience Award for the play in 2023.

Text by Caren Jess
Translated and Directed by Peter Falkenberg
Performed and Produced by Marian McCurdy
Set, Lighting and Film by Stuart Lloyd-Harris

Eleonore’s Bar open from 7.00pm prior to the performance for ticket holders only.

Presented with the support of Creative Communities.

Performing Rights S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;