Jona’s sister gave her the present of a 10-day Caribbean cruise, but thanks to a worldwide pandemic, she has been confined to her windowless cabin and has been for a while. Is it two weeks now? Three? Any sense of time dissolves in these exotic waters. Jona has become an inmate in a luxury jail where everyone must get used to their new, monstrous normality. But the food is slowly running out. And Jona doesn’t know if, should she ever make it back home, she’ll still have a job…

Neil Blackadder is a translator, author and professor, who began translating drama and short fiction in 2002. In Spring 2023, Neil began serving as the Translator in Residence at Princeton University. Neil recently received an NEA Translation Grant to translate Anne Weber’s Ahnen. In 2011, he was awarded a fellowship from the Howard Foundation(Brown University) and a PEN Translation Fund Grant to translate plays by Lukas Bärfuss. Neil has twice held residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and Writers Omi at Ledig House. His work has often been supported by the Goethe-Institut, as well as by the Consulate General of Switzerland and the Austrian Cultural Forum.



Theresia Walser is a German playwright. She started out as an actress and had her debut as a dramatist in 1997. Her play King Kong’s Daughter(1998) was a considerable success and has had more than twenty productions. Walser was voted Best Upcoming Playwright 1998 and Best Playwright in 1999 in the critics’ poll of the magazine Theater Heute. She has been given numerous awards and grants, amongst them the Förderpreis des Schiller-Gedächtnis-Preises 1998 and the BHF-Bank-Foundation Grant 2006.