The Mission (play)

Debuisson in Jamaica
Between black breasts
In Paris Robespierre
His jaw broken.
Or Jeanne d'Arc when the angel failed to appear
The angels always fail to appear in the end
MOUNTAIN OF FLESH DANTON CAN'T GIVE
MEAT TO THE STREET
LOOK LOOK AT THE FLESH IN THE
STREET
THE HUNT FOR RED DEER IN THE YELLOW
SHOES
Christ. The Devil showed him the kingdoms of the world
THROW OFF YOUR CROSS AND ALL WILL BE THINE.
In the time of treason
The landscapes are beautiful.

The Mission: Memory of a Revolution (Der Auftrag: Erinnerungen an eine Revolution), also known as The Task, is a postmodern drama by the (formerly East) German playwright Heiner Müller. The play was written and first published in 1979. Müller and his wife Ginka Cholakova co-directed its first theatrical production in 1980, at the intimate 'Theatre im 3.Stock' studio space of the Volksbühne in Berlin (opening on 16 November). Müller also directed a full-house production in 1982 at the Bochum Theatre in West Germany.

Composed with a "collage-like" dramaturgical structure, the play stages intertextual relationships with a range of classics from the modern theatre, each dealing with the models and ethics of revolutionary action: Brecht's The Decision (1930), Büchner's Danton's Death (1835), and Genet's The Blacks (1958), among others. The play also uses motifs from Anna Seghers' story "The Light on the Gallows" (which Müller had treated in a poem of 1958) and, Müller adds, "biographical events are involved, a trip to Mexico among others that was very important for me in connection with the play." In addition to its dramatic and often self-consciously theatrical scenes, the play is punctured by several lyrical and narrative elements.

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