KAPUTT

In the organizer's words:

CAPITAL, PSYCHOSIS AND THE BIG OTHER

An away performance by studiobühneköln at the COMEDIA Theater
Premiere on December 05, 2024

On a storm-tossed island lies the cemetery of the homeless. Five existentially bored characters meet here, all of whom have been waiting for a long time to continue their journey to the end, as if Sartre and Beckett had played a semi-witty trick on them.
Dora, the missing twin sister of Don Draper, the Italian pop singer Mina, the vicar's daughter Gudrun E., a contract killer named Marcus Caligula and the post-monarchist Betty Le Mack negotiate the end of capitalism in this meta-literary limbo - against better employment.
Which, according to Mark Fisher, is much harder for us to imagine than the end of the world. But let's do it anyway ...

KAPUTT is the last part of the trilogy WORDS DON'T COME EASY and follows the two productions DRECKSTÜCK (2021) and TOTAL (2023), which were nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize and deal with the effects of linguistic communication and its political implications.

In KAPUTT, the focus is on capitalist language and its all-encompassing, deadening and brutalizing effect on social interaction in so-called civilized societies. The production explores - in the form of a "well-made-play" with psychologically (over)motivated characters - how capitalist language, trained by propaganda, advertising and political codes, has become part of the behavioral DNA of people in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Co-production by Tim Mrosek, COMEDIA Theater and studiobühneköln

Cast Alice Janeczek, Isabella Kolb, Carmen Konopka, Katharina Rettich, Jan van Putten
Production Paulina Triebs
Artistic direction, author and dramaturgy Tim Mrosek
Lighting design Aaron Kröger
Technology Lena Schleicher-Baltrusch
Production management Niels Nester
Production assistant Julia Hoffmann

Price information:

https://www.comedia-koeln.de/tickets/