In “Wunschkonzert”, the Munich playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz wrote a silent monologue of a single woman and her suicide. Kroetz comments: “Suicide is often done in an orderly fashion. Suicide’s preparations – which take place almost seamlessly with daily life and normal activities – come from the same love of order and cleanliness, and blind bourgeois hopelessness, as the life that caused the crisis. That says a lot about the lives of some of those buried beneath us, about their unfulfilled expectations, their hopeless hopes, their little dreams; it can document their inability to free themselves from the slavery of productivity, it can show that their lives, and their expiration, are similar to that of working ants. … If the explosive energy of this massive exploitation was not unfortunately turned against the oppressed and exploited themselves, we would have a revolution on our hands. But instead we have so many cases of foolish little homicides and suicides.” “On any given day, Ms. Rasch comes home around 6:30pm after work and shopping. She enters her building, gets her mail and finds nothing but an advertisement, takes it, goes to her door, unlocks it and enters. She puts the shopping bags down on the table, places her purse on the chair, puts the advertisement on the sideboard, and shuts her door” (from “Request Concert”). read less