Electronic City
PREMIERE 09/01/2004
Schaubühne Berlin
»Richter’s play thrives on precisely observed details; it is a single, sharp summons to globalization managers: either fall in love immediately and quit your job, or shoot yourself in a lobby.«
»Richter’s play thrives on precisely observed details; it is a single, sharp summons to globalization managers: either fall in love immediately and quit your job, or shoot yourself in a lobby.«
»Richter’s play thrives on precisely observed details; it is a single, sharp summons to globalization managers: either fall in love immediately and quit your job, or shoot yourself in a lobby.«
Tom and Joy. A love story for the beginning of the 21st century. Tom hurries confused through the corridors of a high rise, an airport, a company headquarters, he has lost his way, he has forgotten the access code, the floor and the apartment number, he doesn’t know where he is any more, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Los Angeles – a reliable and flexible employee, his only point of reference the porn channel in his hotel room.
Joy, paralysed with panic at her little cash desk in the airport at half past one in the morning, twenty businessmen want to pay for their sandwiches and the scanner won’t work, the till is broken, the system is collapsing. But Joy has to go on, her timetable for the week, today: Frankfurt, until 4 a.m., then Tuesday: Hong Kong, overnight from 11 till 7, then on to Singapore, then the night from Saturday to Sunday in Amsterdam from 9 till 4.30 … Joy works stand-by at the scanner desk for Prêt-à-manger International, she’s abandoned her degree… a flexible and adaptable co-worker, her dream: George Clooney.
At the gate Tom and Joy collide and break down. They come to blows over the last seat on board, get arrested and are held together, it’s the beginning of a great love story…
Electronic City has been translated into over 40 languages and has been performed all around the world since its premiere in 2004.
With // Jule Böwe, Judith Engel, Charly Hübner, Caroline Peters, Karin Pfammatter, Kay Bartholomäus Schulze, Mark Waschke