Ich, Samsa

In the organizer's words:

We all know the story: Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. Is it a dream? If so, what is the message? In any case, those around him are overwhelmed by Gregor's transformation and so disaster takes its course ...

While the transformation of humans into animals - with subsequent redemption - has a long tradition in European culture, Samsa finds no salvation in Kafka's story. He dies alone in his dark room. I, SAMSA is about the classic heroine's journey: as in the myth, the protagonist is catapulted out of her familiar world and must first shed her old self before she can be reborn.

The actress Paula Sophia Götz tells the story as a monologue from a first-person perspective. Samsa's fate is flanked by stories from young adults from Cologne, who talk about their personal lives and deal with the question: What to do when your own body goes on strike and refuses to continue living the wrong life? But what would the right life be?

The premiere will take place as part of the Cologne/Bonn Mental Health Week. The performance will then be added to the Theater der Keller's repertoire.

A production by The Beautiful Minds
The Beautiful Minds is a theater collective from Bonn. In our productions, we focus on participatory and biographical theater work with the experts of everyday life: the participants bring in personal stories from their specific life realities and thus play a decisive role in shaping the performances. We work in a very process-oriented way and want to help the participants in our projects to become experts in their own particularities. True to the motto: everybody has a beautiful mind.

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