Cola Lemon 30 Cent

In the organizer's words:

Content Warning: Strobe-like video effects are used. The piece contains visual and auditory representations of gambling and deals explicitly with individual experiences of gambling addiction and depression.

You can see them on every other street corner: Gambling halls with names like Zokki's Spieltreff, Fair Play or Gran Casino . Despite their omnipresence in Cologne's cityscape, however, you usually don't even notice them because they use simple but effective decorations to create absolute obscurity.

Director Frederik Werth and his team embark on an expedition into the dark continent of casinos, where fun and games beckon, but personal ruin is usually not far away. Using all performative and scenic means, Cola Lemon 30 Cent will bring to life the strange attraction of winning and losing that lies at the heart of gambling addiction. After all, it is precisely in the theater, in which gambling plays such a central role, that the question of the extent to which we ourselves are susceptible to the "invisible addiction" from which the nebulous world of those vending machines, which promise both carelessness and loss of control, profit so mercilessly, arises.