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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

based on the short stories by David Foster Wallace

Brief_Interviews This compilation of dialogues and monologues delves into men´s fear of truly being seen or understood. The loneliness, aggression, and rawness of the characters are laid bare by a series of short interviews conducted by a silent female figure. Movement and visual passages disrupt the text to highlight suppressed motives.

Should we be witnessing this? How is the seemingly harmless partially loaded?

“… the inability to make another feel what it´s like to be unable to make another feel.” David Foster Wallace

Sexual Perversity in Chicago

by DAVID MAMET

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a funky play for the singles generation

Two men and two women inthe dating pool, or the rise and fall of Danny and Deborah – a play about people around 30 trying to make sense of their lives.

“Language was invented to hide our feelings.” Voltaire

The first perversity is the fact that we never stop talking. Followed by the second one – that we are not really talking to each other but to ourselves. The third perversity is an obvious one – the never-ending search for the other half, the lonelines that comes with it, and that at some point we become addicted to the search. That´s why there are bars, make up and pornography. The fourth and final perversity is the strong belief that eventually we will succeed and be able to leave it all behind.

The proof that all this is true lies in the fact that things are still the same as they were when Mamet´s Sexual Perversity in Chicago first came out in 1974, a time when we thought we would be able to turn the world upside down – and we did.

Dead Fred

a Road Play by Günther Grosser & Priscilla Be

SHOW-Renate+Fred Fred is dead but he´s not done talking. Anna is fed up with her stinky life in the East. Jens and Andreas are on the look-out for unsuspecting capitalist slobs. Edna is in the bathroom without a clue. The Royal Insults are on their way to fame without a map.

Dead Fred tells the story of a day in the lives of nine people on the `Transitstrecke´ – the transit road – through East Germany – a day they will never forget.

A grotesque comedy for those who´ve been there – and for those who´ve only heard about it. LA Crash meets Thelma without Louise in Michendorf. Fear and Loathing on the Transitstrecke – and the puzzling place afterwards.