Fatigue

ME/CFS is not a rare condition. According to current estimates, approximately 650.000 people in Germany have ME/CFS. The number is on the rise. FATIGUE enables the profound effects of chronic diseases such as Long COVID and ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to be seen and felt. Like the victims of a mining accident, these individuals suffer from isolation and struggle for breath, light and hope of rescue. Everything in the production revolves around the existential breach with accustomed normality that confronts the victims with their own fragility and the dependence we all share on communal solidarity. To free themselves from this state of permanent overload, they begin a search for meaning they have never known before, one that costs them additional strength but also has revolutionary potential: it is only once the need to change our own lives becomes obvious that the dysfunctionality of an apparently functioning society is exposed. The performance takes place simultaneously at two different venues linked by technology. This technological bridge facilitates a unique audience experience in which the separate spaces reinforce the characters’ internal conflict and external isolation. The audience become witnesses of a divided reality in which the borders between stage and screen, presence and absence are blurred.