Genesis

An actor walks on stage and realises he’s in the wrong play. A white room. Wooden crates. They haven’t even finished building the set. But the audience is already there, looking at him expectantly. It’s a nightmare come true. The actor starts performing … but what? He doesn’t know which play he’s in. He’s lost. He’s in the wrong place. It’s all a mistake. But what if this mistake might also be an opportunity, a creative principle? And so, he begins to create something out of nothing, something that somehow fits this stage world that opens up in front of him, unfinished – while a question looms menacingly over his performance: “Is that something? Will that do, what I’m doing here? When does something become something?” In GENESIS Bastian Reiber, “the funniest actor in our region” (rbb) and “gifted comedian” (nachtkritik) plunges headlong into the depths of nothingness and becomes the reluctant creator – not of the world, but of a divine comedy. With texts from “La chair de l’homme” by Valère Novarina, published in German as “311 Gottesdefinitionen” translated by Leopold von Verschuer.