Anita and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch
Stella is co-writing an original stage play with Maya Lasker-Wallfisch entitled THE INVITATION.
THE INVITATION tells the story of the aftershocks of trauma that seep through families generation after generation. It is a familiar story that we can all relate to through variations and iterations of our own family trauma that we have experienced knowingly (and not knowingly) throughout our lives. In this story we follow a daughter’s desperate attempt to understand and be understood by her mother, and we follow a mother’s attempt to give her daughter the safety and stability that she lost as a teenager. This is a play about two people reaching for one another, and trying their best to connect…but seeming to reach in different directions, or to speak in different love languages. An unlikely invitation is the link which creates common ground between this British daughter and her German mother.