1974 – “Happy Birthday, Wanda June” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Posted on: June 1, 1974Big time war hero Harold Ryan returns home after being presumed dead for years. During the war he has killed hundred of men, women and animals together with his friend Colonel Harper, an aviation hero who was responsible for dropping the bomb on Nagasaki. Ryan needs to find out that his wife has found multiple lovers who are nothing like himself, his son has grown unmanly and there is no real adversary in the whole United States who is worth killing anymore. All action is commented from heaven by Wanda June, a young girl who died just before her birthday, Mildred, Harold’s ex-wife, and Major von Köngiswald, Harold’s most infamous victim.
Cast
Harold Ryan | Reinhard Auer |
Penelope Ryan | Erica Lichtenberg |
Paul Ryan (12 yrs.) | Bertram Schattbacher |
Col. Looseleaf Harper | Hans Nerbl |
Herb Shuttle | Harro Decho |
Dr. Norbert Woodly | Helmut Riedl |
Wanda June | Dorli Gruber |
Mildred Ryan | Cynthia Bell |
Major Siegfried von Köngigswald | Brian Cooper |
Crew
Directors | Brian Cooper K. K. Rodin |
Stage Design | Werner Schmitz |
Costumes | Werner Schmitz |
Posters | Erica Lichtenberg |
Programme | Erica Lichtenberg |
Management | Brian Cooper K. K. Rodin Hans Nerbl Werner Schmitz |