My Body is a Cage

In the organizer's words:

Trapped in an outdated, unattractive, immobile body - are we playing Faust or are we at school? In their free adaptation of Goethe's Faust, the group questions what education means today - who defines it, who has access to it and where it reaches its limits. Trapped in old thought patterns and inner blockages, Faust makes a momentous pact for a moment of fulfillment. The production reflects the conflict between knowledge and physical self-determination and poses the question of whether our education system treats more symptoms than enables real change.

We are the Black Box performance center. "My Body is a Cage" - an examination of the scholarly tragedy from "Faust I" - is our first play together. We've all been doing theater at the Albert Einstein School since the fifth grade. We are between 14 and 19 years old. The mix of ages brings new perspectives. Because we see ourselves as a collective, we work democratically on our ideas and goals.

Faust I" is about this: a person, highly educated, free access to education, lots of time and financial means ... but he has barriers in his head, sets limits for himself and is stuck - in the eternal yesterday. Stagnation: My Body is a Cage. Suddenly he gets an offer he can't refuse; it seems to be the way out of his misery. But the offer is just as backward-looking as his entire life to date. Progression and change are zero.
Nevertheless: Hey! A moment of absolute satisfaction! For this moment, he makes a pact with the devil. Freeing the body.

We sit in our study rooms every day and collect education - or what the ministries believe education should be for us. Mind-body clash. Isn't it all just fighting symptoms and not reflecting on what needs to be changed? We'll just play the recorder?*

*Excerpt from the coalition agreement of the new Hessian state government on the subject of cultural education: "We will launch a recorder project with school beginners, in which primary school pupils will receive a recorder and teachers will receive suitable teaching materials. In this way, we want to open the door to the world of music for children as early as possible."

With

Hannah Görtz, Magnus Görtz, Henrik Grein, Vianne Lauer, Anna Shatalov, Sophie Stock, Salome Wack, Johanna Wasem

Andrea Fischer - Stage management

Olaf Mönch - Technology

Johanna Paloma Schupp - Collaboration