Glaube Liebe Roboter

In the organizer's words:

Elisabeth is standing in front of the anatomical institute and wants to sell her future corpse. She needs the 150 marks she earns to buy a traveling salesman's license and be able to work. Ödön von Horváth's folk play begins with this scene. It depicts a rigid system that causes Elisabeth's plans to fail and from which she can only escape by committing suicide. Bonn Park's sequel "Glaube Liebe Roboter" begins after her suicide and resurrects her as a robot in the anatomical institute in an undefined future. The concentrated working atmosphere in the laboratory, where the taxidermist and his assistant are researching new ways for humanity to survive, is only disturbed by the occasional appearance of other characters from Horváth's play. In these moments, a view opens up from the peaceful institute to a post-apocalyptic outside world.

In his play development, author and director Bonn Park examines our current relationship to the future. We receive threatening news of wars, AI and climate change on a daily basis, creating a desperate feeling of powerlessness. Unlike Elizabeth, who is driven by the hope of a different life and ready to change her present, our current visions of catastrophe paralyze us. How can we imagine a future that neither falls prey to a naïve belief in progress nor ends in an inevitable dystopia?