ÜBERGEWICHT, unwichtig: UNFORM

Tickets will be sold directly by the Berliner Festspiele and will go on sale on 19 April at 2 pm.

Audience Discussion
Monday, 20 May after the performance
Impulse: Ann Cotten (Poet)

What exactly does it mean to be civilised? At an inn, six regulars, all of them so-called failures in life, and the landlady ponder life, responsibility and happiness. There is aggression in the air, one beer after the other is passed across the bar. Schweindi, Hasi, Karli, Herta, Jürgen, Fotzi and the landlady pull no punches with each other, but the situation really escalates when a so-called “beautiful couple” joins them.

The Austrian playwright Werner Schwab made a name for himself in the 1990s with his “excrement dramas”, works of language art that used set pieces from politics, advertisement and bureaucracy. Director Rieke Süßkow and her high-energy cast make masterful use of an unambiguous artificiality in ÜBERGEWICHT, unwichtig: UNFORM to unmask mechanisms of everyday life and to give Werner Schwab’s drastic language room to make an impact.

Recommended for ages: 18 and up due to explicit depictions of violence and sexuality

Content Note
The play text contains sexuality as well as physical, verbal and sexualised violence. The production presents these explicitly and in an artificiality and exaggeration. Strong language and vulgar language are used. Sound effects are used that are reminiscent of violent and sexualised acts. Stroboscopic lighting effects are used sporadically.

With: Julia Bartolome, Soheil Boroumand, Joshua Kliefert, Katharina Kurschat, Matthias Luckey, Pola Jane O’Mara

Director: Rieke Süßkow
Stage Design: Mirjam Stängl
Costume Design: Sabrina Bosshard
Dramaturgy: Klaus Missbach
Music: Philipp C. Mayer
Trampoline Coach: Yannick Meier
Lighting: Paul Grilj