Die zweite Sonne

In the organizer's words:

Play by Svenja Viola Bungarten | Relaxed Performance

The year is 1999 and people are preparing for the great solar eclipse. But instead of the feared apocalypse, another disaster occurs: all the mothers disappear without a trace. A reporter stays on the case over the following decades and wonders about single fathers and other new realities. Over several generations, she follows how one crisis after another shakes society. Meanwhile, the Cosmic Ones, a more highly developed life form, observe events from the outside - calmly and happily. They have long since created a utopia in their parallel universe ...

Humorously and poignantly, "The Second Sun" tells of the doom and gloom of our time and poses questions about a possible future. Ecological, social and political crises are interlinked. But is there another way? How can we stand up for a future that is liveable and habitable for everyone across the generations? Do we only have to shed our outdated views to save the world? The text is a sophisticated score of polyphony that is extremely conciliatory and enormously funny.

Nora Kühnhold stages "Die zweite Sonne" as a polyphonic score and aesthetic collage in which the text resonates with the body, music and voice. From the discursive diversity of the text, she searches for theatrical and emotional correspondences in order to depict people, but also non-human beings, as actors in the environment and the world.