CAVEMAN, a real crowd-puller worldwide, is one of Germany's most successful plays with over 13,000 performances and around 4.9 million spectators in more than 200 cities. Rob Becker's brilliant monologue about the complicated yet amusing relationship between a man and a woman has become the most successful solo play in Broadway history. And in Germany, too, CAVEMAN, translated by Kristian Bader and staged by Esther Schweins, has been a perennial stage hit since its German-language premiere on July 27, 2000.
On July 27, 2025, the original CAVEMAN Kristian Bader returns to Berlin for the anniversary show and as a thank you for their continued loyalty, the anniversary audience can look forward to a few surprises. It's going to be a party for everyone who is in, has been in or wants to be in a relationship!
CAVEMAN takes a unique look at the relationship between man and woman. In the "magic underwear circle", Tom, the likeable hero in the thicket of relationships, meets his ancestor from the Stone Age, who shares his millennia-old wisdom with him: Men are hunters and women are gatherers. A fact that human evolution has apparently not been able to change to this day. What the average man has always suspected, Tom now knows first-hand and asks himself: "Why don't we simply regard women and men as completely different cultures? With different languages, different behaviors and different origins?"
Inspired by this insight, Tom analyzes the strange universe of female collectors: This mysterious world of best friends, shopping and sex. With an immense need to communicate, dry humor and his ironic eye, Tom also observes the hunter's way of life. He reveals what fulfillment "sitting around without talking" can mean, why men have to zap through the TV program and that a conversation between hunters begins and ends with the words "Let's go into the cellar, drill things".
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