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Boston Globe: In Russian or English, Arlekin Players hope audiences feel the weight of ‘The Stone’
Marius von Mayenburg is a playwright, translator, dramaturg, director and one of the most widely produced German playwrights. His plays receive regularly productions at the Schaubühne/Berlin, the Royal Court Theater/ London, and other major theaters around the world.

Marius von Mayenburg’s new play examines the reverberations created by sixty years of German history.

“This is our house underneath all this mildew and junk. I know every stone.”

1935: A young couple buys the house from a Jewish family, and so the myth begins

1953: The couple’s daughter discovers the stone

1978: The family returns to claim what’s rightfully theirs

1993: The house is back in their possession

As a house passes from owner to owner, and from generation to generation, the secrets buried in the garden and seeping from the walls reveal themselves.