Es sagt mir nichts, das sogenannte Draußen
They are smart, well-educated, and focused on self-optimization. They sell homemade Viagra on the internet and increase the market value of their bodies at the gym, even though they despise the market. They risk nothing, neither in politics nor in love. Compassion, solidarity, respect? Outdated values of a generation they despise. They communicate via Skype, SMS, chat, or mobile phone, and yet there remains a feeling of overwhelming loneliness.
A woman takes stock of her life so far: once a member of a tough girl gang, today peaceful Urban Knitting, once awkwardly kissing boys, today gender issues and the projects “Sex” and “Love” with men or women, once lofty ideals, today pragmatism. Emotion is something she mainly knows from movies, family an antiquated concept, there is no room for longing in life. Yet, the world always lurks outside, makes demands, dictates images that are impossible to meet, relentlessly keeps the runner running …
A "wild rogue piece about the feeling of life in the centrifuge of affluent society" called the professional journal "Theater heute" Es sagt mir nichts, das sogenannte Draußen and crowned it the best German-language play of 2014. Joyful, furious, rich in tempo and punchlines, the author confronts the demands of our world; what remains is a diffuse fear that hurts, no matter if you are 25 or 52: the fear "that everything could remain as it is: gray."
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
