Das Spar­schwein / Die Kon­trakte des Kauf­manns

In the organizer's words:

The Piggy Bank / The Merchant's Contracts

by Eugène Labiche / Elfriede Jelinek - A vaudeville with the students of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielstudio - Labiche translation by Sabrina Zwach - Premiere on March 2, 2024 - Schauspielhaus, Kleines Haus - Schauspiel

In 1864 in the French province. A group of friends and relatives meet once a week to play cards. The stakes are regularly put into the piggy bank, which is now to be slaughtered and the money spent together - in Paris, the "capital of the world". But what begins as a pleasure trip soon takes on the features of a ludicrous nightmare: A meal in a restaurant brings the villagers to the brink of ruin, they are mistakenly arrested as a gang of thieves, fall into the clutches of a shady matchmaker and ultimately end up on the street with no money. This could be the end of the story, were it not for the fact that the state of complete destitution awakens the potential for crime and anarchy.