The Lobster

In the organizer's words:

The Lobster
based on the film by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, directed by Lucia Bihler, German translation by Linda Kokkores
German premiere

Arrival at the hotel - and 45 days to find a partner. A life together in carefree togetherness within reach! Only one common characteristic is needed to produce perfect couples. Anyone who fails to fall in love with someone during their stay will be turned into an animal. In this mission, the hotel's mechanics rattle mercilessly over its guests. Among them is David, who is short-sighted and wears glasses.

In their film "The Lobster", screenwriter Efthimis Filippou and director Yorgos Lanthimos create a restrictive system of enforced partnering. Using hollow and overspecific language, they paint a razor-sharp picture of social coexistence. Out of place and remote-controlled, the characters stumble through this world, every attempt at self-expression fails and meanwhile time is running out. The apparent way out: the forest. Loners live here according to an uncompromising set of rules, and any kind of rapprochement between them is forbidden. David flees to them, unaware of how much it hurts to be alone. She already knows this: the woman with the same average myopia that he encounters here.

More information and tickets here: https://www.muenchner-volkstheater.de/programm/schauspiel/lobster