Die Laborantin

In the organizer's words:

By Ella Road, German by John Birke

Bea, a laboratory technician in a large clinic, works in a growth industry: a simple blood test has recently begun to provide information on hereditary diseases, genetic defects and the probability of mental and physical illnesses, and calculates an overall score on a scale of one to ten for the complicated results. What is intended as progress for individual health care quickly has an impact on all areas of life: The dream job, a date, a home loan, nothing works anymore without a good rating - and wouldn't it be most humane if people with poor genetic makeup didn't procreate in the first place? Bea (7.1) and her boyfriend Aaron (8.9), on the other hand, have all doors open to them. Aaron's rating enables him to pursue a career in law, Bea's job is crisis-proof. When Bea's friend Char is only tested for a score of 2, Bea discovers a lucrative sideline: when a simple number decides your future, a fake test is worth hard cash.

This exciting vision of the future, which unfortunately almost seems to be a contemporary play, was written by a woman in her mid-twenties. The story is about equally young people and deals in a tragicomic way with the opportunism of large sections of the next generation. This pressure to conform makes being young look older than, for example, the life of David, the unconventional belly man in his mid-fifties and janitor of the clinic.

Director: Sewan Latchinian
Set design: Birgit Voß
Music & Video: Massimo
With Julia Berchthold, Alexander Klages, Pia Koch and Jascha Schütz