Tag und Nacht
The new play by cult author Roland Schimmelpfennig is constructed with almost mathematical precision around the numbers 2 and 4: with two brothers, two women and two couples. One couple lives in the country, the other in the city. The brothers are estranged and haven’t seen each other for years. One is an actor. His name is Erik. 1000 performances of “Puss in Boots” have made him a local celebrity and an alcoholic. The other, Martin, writes. For years he has been working on a script of “The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse”, a children’s story and political manifesto rolled into one. But he can hardly get past the first page. Their partners, Lisa and Astrid, both wish they could leave their lives behind with men who are worn out by success and failure. Astrid longs for the city. Lisa has better artistic ideas than Erik and some sympathy for Martin, his brother in the country, and his unfinished script. What happens when the country couple suddenly comes to town? Or the city dwellers rock up in the country with a whole car full of wine, beer and spirits? And when it slowly emerges that it was politics that caused such a deep rift between the two brothers? Roland Schimmelpfennig has written an ingenious play that is wonderfully absurd and painfully contemporary, where every duality and every pairing ultimately dissolves into collective anarchy.
- Regie Lily Sykes
- Bühne Hannah Heiermann
- Kostüm Jelena Miletić
- Musik | Komposition Albertine Sarges
- Lightdesign Michael Frank
- Dramaturgie Alexander Kerlin
- Erik Thomas Dannemann
- Lisa Claude De Demo
- Martin Paul Grill
- Astrid Birgit Unterweger
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Eine bissige Komödie, die mit leichter Hand die schwerste Frage von allen verhandelt: Wie wollen wir leben?
Ein fulminanter Abend, anstrengend und belachbar, mit kindlicher Verkleidungslust und heftiger Provokation. Eine Schauspieler:innen-Schlacht zum Erschrecken und Erstaunen.
TAG UND NACHT ist ein Fest für vier großartige Schauspieler.
Ein wahres Theaterereignis.
Ein Stück von böser Klugheit und galliger Heiterkeit, ein Kommentar zu unserer Zeit, zu den Mechanismen der Polarisierung und den Aporien einer Gesellschaft, in der keiner mehr an Märchen glaubt, aber alle wie im Märchen leben möchten.
Regisseurin Lily Sykes inszeniert ‚TAG UND NACHT‘ als fulminantes Theater auf dem Theater: Das Leben als Nullsummenspiel der verpassten Möglichkeiten und ungelebten Träume, die man zwar beliebig oft durchspielen, aber nie verwirklichen kann.