Einige Nachrichten an das All

What is the story of this play? This is what Lum and Purl Schweitzke ask, two characters who are themselves part of the work they are discussing. Like the characters in Beckett’s “Godot”, they want to confront their fate. They enquire hopefully whether the author of the play plans to give them a child. This would give meaning to their existence. Perhaps theLeader of Progress could do something? He, however, strides through the events on stage and turns encounters into messages that he beams into the universe with a piece of technical apparatus. They are supposed to communicate something about life. Something essential. Enduring. Not the usual space junk. And the stage is promptly invaded by characters seeking a broader meaning: a single father, his dead daughter Hilde, a guest from a trashy talk show, the botanist Rafinesque, a politician and even Heinrich von Kleist. Wolfram Lotz has written a carrousel of tragicomic characters in which the rules of classical drama dissolve and time and space are scrambled. Because “We are in the middle of an explosion, you fuckers!” Their predestined fate remains merciless. No one here is going to have a child unless the author has planned it. Pain and absurdity branch out within Lotz’s characters in a manner that is both humorous and tragic, and transience is omnipresent. Performed by the acting students of STUDIO SPL KLN.