I learn slowly, and I am voraciously hedonistic. The Swiss actress's success has taken her from the Madrid fringe to the stage of the National Drama Center and now to the massive showcase of theater that is the annual Edinburgh festival, where she distributed 8, condoms on the streets to encourage people to come to see the show.
According to Stoffel, The Surrender is nothing less than a passionate commentary on the power of certain practices, which are "still enclosed by big taboos.
Stoffel first adapted it into Spanish and then into English very faithful to the original and German, her mother tongue - an actress in three languages. When she performs it in Spanish, she astonishes with the her perfect production of the lisping sounds. Not very customary, because hardly five percent of Spanish speakers use it in their daily life. But what it demonstrates is the Swiss-watch-like ability she has for creating theater. But as well as Spartan concentration, listening to the phrases in The Surrender requires a carefree acceptance to enter uninhibitedly into what the text brings up.
The ass cannot lie: if you lie, it hurts This is all on the stage, because drinking a coffee at mid-morning one day in Madrid, the actress keeps the rudeness in check. But not the profundity: "Sex is one of life's driving forces, but I find it tremendously difficult to put into words the power that it transmits.
It might be as serious as death, so if you don't apply some irony, it becomes a boring topic. In The Surrender I found that balance. That is the balance between the transcendent and the light, the unknown and common sense, rebellion and resignation that the piece emits.
