Reizende Leute, diese Boulingrins (es brennt) THEATERTAG

In the organizer's words:

by Georges Courteline
Director: Jacob Höhne

When the penniless Schmalzfleisch enters the Boulingrins' salon, she thinks she has found paradise for herself and concocts a fabulous plan: in the bosom of bourgeois perfection, she wants to spend the winter like a parasite free of charge. But behind the home's perfect façade, hell reveals itself. Madame and Monsieur Boulingrin find themselves in a full-blown marital war of insults and blows. Schmalzfleisch is caught between the fronts as a pawn and also experiences the employee Felicitas as a victim of the sadistic game between the couple.

In his one-act play from 1898, the French author Georges Courteline deals with the abysses of the bourgeoisie, who discover their lust for destruction and declare their salon to be the regulated playing field of their fetish. In their destructive rage, Madame and Monsieur become gods of all things and emancipate themselves from the human creature to become creative creators who imitate world destruction and world creation both at home and outside in science and economics. The Boulingrins neither hear nor care that people outside who don't own salons are building barricades out of cobblestones.

In love with violence, like Leone or Tarantino, the inclusive RambaZamba ensemble discovers the sensual potential of destruction in Courteline's comedy and uses wordplay and slapstick to deal with bitterly wicked little things that point to the deep abysses of interpersonal relationships.

The production deals with violence, sexual acts and sexualized violence. Artificial fog, strobe effects, very loud sound effects and loud music are used. The sound of a fire alarm is used.