Trommeln in der Nacht

Off to political activism, or rather to safety: to the bigwhite bed.

Imagine you're pregnant and no one is allowed to know. And the one you've been waiting for for four years has gone off to war. Imagine your parents love their homeland more than you and offer you as a bride to someone who will take over their factory. Imagine a riot raging outside because the state is failing. In Felicitas Brucker's production of Drums in the Night with texts by Şeyda Kurt, Bertolt Brecht's 1922 play is put to the test of our present day: who benefits from the war and who rebels? At the front, in the marriage bed and on the street? The author Şeyda Kurt expands Brecht's early play about the war returnee Kragler with texts by women who neither want to sell themselves nor wait.