Delirium
PREMIERE 08/12/2005
Schaubühne Berlin
»Through the rapid cutting of scenes and the overlapping of settings, the production gains a pull that carries one toward the ending like a rising wave. This dynamic is a success.«
»Through the rapid cutting of scenes and the overlapping of settings, the production gains a pull that carries one toward the ending like a rising wave. This dynamic is a success.«
»Through the rapid cutting of scenes and the overlapping of settings, the production gains a pull that carries one toward the ending like a rising wave. This dynamic is a success.«
A Berlin winter day, it is December 24th, the night of lonely people. The parents of a twelve-year-old boy forgot to fetch him from the airport kindergarten, and the temp kindergarten teacher only knows stories about horrible accidents and catastrophes. But then the boy meets a little girl whose parents didn’t come either. And the young couple sets out into the Berlin night that is inhabited by people who love and hate, who find and lose each other. The two kids try to remember that famous story that has turned this night a unique hysterical-depressive party…
A play about the search for love in cold and hard times.
“Radio announcer: …is the coldest day since 1827…minus 34 degree Celsius since last Friday…temperatures will probably keep on falling over the holidays.
Child: Mom has switched off her mobile – I can’t contact anybody here.
Radio announcer: …meteorologists are expecting a blizzard and a felt temperature of minus 42 degree Celsius for around 2 am tonight.“
Stage Design // Katrin Hoffmann
Costume Design // Martin Kraemer
Music // Paul Lemp
Dramaturgy // Jens Hillje
Video // Martin Rottenkolber
Lighting Design // Michael Gööck
Cast // André Szymanski, Bruno Cathomas, Christian Sengewald, Jenny Schily, Judith Engel, Nikola Weisse, Robert Beyer, Sebastian Rudolph, Stipe Erceg