ZWEI UHR NACHTS
PREMIERE 01/02/2015
Schauspiel Frankfurt
»Richter practices the self- and world-interrogation of the overburdened freelancer with such a capacity for suffering that one wonders whether he knows anyone else at all.«
»Richter practices the self- and world-interrogation of the overburdened freelancer with such a capacity for suffering that one wonders whether he knows anyone else at all.«
»Richter practices the self- and world-interrogation of the overburdened freelancer with such a capacity for suffering that one wonders whether he knows anyone else at all.«
A commissioned work for Frankfurter Positionen 2015 – an initiative of the BHF-BANK Foundation
Crossing the boundaries between theatre, dance, and concert: as author and director, Falk Richter develops theatre projects based on his own texts in collaboration with an ensemble of musicians, actors, and dancers. ZWEI UHR NACHTS (TWO A.M.) begins in moments of restlessness, insomnia, and inner urgency. These are moments when latent existential crises break through, when fundamental questions erupt into consciousness and wear at the soul—moments that trigger a search for the “other,” the “real” life.
How do obsessive demands for self-optimization, increasing pressure to perform, and the constant expectation of total identification with one’s job affect our human relationships? What defines those situations and encounters in which we feel authentic and alive rather than externally controlled and empty? What alternative concepts of work, life, and relationships exist?
Composition // Helgi Hrafn Jónsson, Valgeir Sigurðsson
Stage Design // Katrin Hoffmann
Costumes // Marysol del Castillo
Video // Chris Kondek
Dramaturgy // Sibylle Baschung
With // Constanze Becker, Johanna Lemke, Lisa Stiegler, Jorijn Vriesendorp, Timo Fakhravar, Denis “Kooné” Kuhnert, Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider, Marc Oliver Schulze, Helgi Hrafn Jónsson, Valgeir Sigurðsson (musician)