The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz is a play showing at The Rachel Browne Theatre, about the life of a German Menonite couple living in Manitoba. The play deals with a lot sexual and relationship issues, mostly, that the husband, Obrum can’t conceive a child with his wife Susch.
Obrum offers his house to Beethoven Bltaz, and Russian pianist who escaped the revolution and is emotionally troubled by the loss of his lover. Blatz lives in their home, while he fixes the piano and occasionally provides lessons to to Susch.
However, the main reason that Blatz is there, unbeknown to Susch, is to get her pregnant. It is an odd concept, especially for the time, that one man would encourage another man to sleep with his wife. This is hardly found in today’s more liberal society, let alone back at the beginning of the 20th century.
The characters are often speaking in between the lines when dealing with their arrangement and often confuse themselves and each other while trying to achieve their goal.
Susch’s friend Teen, is also involved and is upset about the arrangment. Teen is in love with Susch and has trouble coming to terms with her emotions and feelings, since homosexuality is something that wasn’t understood at this point in time for many people.
She tries he best to kick Blatz out of the house, and for the family to go back to normal. Really, it has more to do with her own troubled emotions.
The play was written by Armin Wiebe and directed by Kim McCaw.
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