Wasted (Verschwendet)

In the organizer's words:

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

by Kae Tempest | translated from the English by Judith Holofernes

"Experience 75 minutes of fresh, cheeky, serious, sad and humorous theater." MDR Kultur

"A strongly acted play." Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

"Director Krysztof Minkowski relies entirely on the agonizing, lurking calm of the exhausted party animals." Theater heute

Somehow a community - Danny, Ted, Charlotte. As teenagers, they roamed the nights together, invented their lives, had desires, goals and ideas. Then they lost each other. Ted has settled into a job and a relationship. Charlotte is a teacher, the flight for a break abroad is already booked. Danny is shuffling from job to job, his band is sure to take off soon. They meet up again on the tenth anniversary of Tony's death, the fourth in the group. And brag, lie, gossip ... and expose themselves and the others. Are they not happy, or do they just feel sorry for each other too much? The brighter the night gets, the more the thirty-year-old me's forget their presence. Intoxicated, they make plans and decisions for the future.
Kae Tempest's first theater text is a subtle weave of words, rhymes and melodies. In it, Tempest sketches a party in which lies become truths and realities become deceptions, in which the characters sink hopefully into the driving beat. "Wasted" is a great rap, drenched in lyricism and like the soundtrack to a night out.