DRAMA von Constanza Macras

In the organizer's words:

FOR THE LAST TIME!

In DRAMA , a group tirelessly explores the possibilities and limits of the stage space in our current post-pandemic times, in which users have become the content of social media.

On a real theater stage, what the audience already knows still seems to work best. Shakespeare? Sophocles? Again? With suits? The performers question and explore various genres, which they merge into a recreation of the theatrical genre "La Revista Argentina": a mixture of cabaret and revue with French glamour, catchy Spanish-language music, the humor of Italian immigrants, lots of feathers, great musical numbers and famous comedians. "La Revista Argentina" was created during the Weimar Republic, at the same time Buster Keaton presented The Enchanted House, where criminals and bad actors from a mediocre Faust meet by chance.

The characters in DRAMA vacillate between an anthropological need to dismember pop culture in order to find the tension between a high and low art and the tinged endurance of the glamorous dancers of the 1920s Argentine revue. Despite the genre being regarded as populist and superficial, they act with Spartan stamina and without wincing in pain. Robert Lippok's music adds another dimension to the atmosphere, which contrasts with the musical references of pop songs.

The performers compete with the exhausted attention span of an audience in the era of clickbait. How to compete with the constant spectacle offered by politics and news, fake or real? Drama is no longer just in the theater, it's everywhere. Joseph Campbell's reparation with the father is the root and repetition of endless heroic tales of a patriarchal nature, but are these heroic journeys even a reflection of the male director with a father complex?

German and English with English and German surtitles.

Further information at: https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/repertoire/drama