Thanks for Listening

In the organizer's words:

"It remains an open question whose fault it is that we don't understand each other, because the animals understand us just as badly as we understand them."

Under the title Thanks for Listening , we bring three stories to the stage in which humans meet non-human individuals: a cow, a robot and a rock. These encounters revolve around the attempt to overcome loneliness, build relationships, engage in conversation with one another and experience care - across species boundaries.

Two stories raise questions about grief and support: one deals with the human attempt to support a grieving cow. And once, a robot accompanies a dying person in their final hours. In the third story, a person looks at and explores a rock and asks himself: What is life? Where does living together begin? And how can I ever get out of my skin?

A central component of the project is You - a moving sculpture by Amon Ritz, specially developed for the production, which embodies the cow, robot and rock on stage. In three episodes, three players encounter this technical co-player, which interacts with them partly autonomously and partly under control.