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The screamingly funny pioneer of absurd theater – and the ever-relevant, increasingly mad exchanges between couples Smith and Martin. Director Johanna Mitulla stages Eugène Ionesco's subversive theater classic.

Jesus is dead, Marx is dead … and I don't feel quite well today either.” (Eugène Ionesco)

The couple Smith is sitting in the living room. It is cozy there, and things proceed in a mannerly way. They chat animatedly. Although, actually, she is the one doing all the talking. He remains silent, nods, mutters. Everything is like every evening. Even when visitors are announced, nothing unusual happens. They just want to quickly change their clothes and let their friends Mr. and Mrs. Martin wait for a moment. However, the two must realize that they have forgotten each other. They neither know that they are married nor remember their daughter together. Piece by piece, they find out who the other is. Until Mr. and Mrs. Smith return, and the unconditional maintenance of conventions becomes ever crazier.

DIE KAHLE SÄNGERIN was the first play by the famous playwright Eugène Ionesco. The premiere in 1950 in Paris marked nothing less than the birth of absurd theater – even if no one knew it back then. In retrospect, it seems almost surprising that the audience celebrated the play so much, and it has been performed every day at the Theatre de la Huchette since 1957, for example. Because: The play was not intended as a comedy by the author at all! Ionesco developed it from phrases in his English textbook – with the rather grim aim of documenting the boredom and emptiness that can exist between people who know each other inside and out.

Director Johanna Mitulla made her debut in the 23/24 season with DER KLEINE PRINZ at the Volkstheater in the districts, gently modernizing it while preserving the charm of the evergreen. This season, she turns to Ionesco, the screamingly funny pioneer of absurd theater – and seeks the couples Smith and Martin in all of us.

Cast

with Simon Bauer, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet, Simon Mantei, Nora Wagner

Director Johanna Mitulla
Stage Laurent Pellissier
Costume Vanessa Sampaio Borgmann
Music Lukas Katzer
Choreography Rebecca Rosa Liebing
Dramaturgy Lisa Kerlin

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