Burn, Baby Burn!

In the organizer's words:

What it's about

A village after a fire: five people search for remnants, memories, support, truth and a language for what is happening to them - and ask themselves what remains of us when everything is suddenly different. But the deeper they dig, the bigger the questions become: What actually happened here? Who is telling us about the world? And what remains when certainties start to slip? Yael Ronen's new play takes an all-changing moment as its starting point and turns it into a clever and abysmally funny evening of theater about loss, conspiracy, anger, love and the possibility of starting anew.

World premiere
by Yael Ronen
German by Irina Szodruch

"Burn, Baby, Burn!" takes us back in time from a fictional comic strip about fire goddesses to ancient Rome and Emperor Nero, perhaps the most famous arsonist in history. The ancient images become a sparkling mirror of the present: for crises, displays of power and man's age-old fascination with fire, destruction and renewal. With sharp wit, great enthusiasm and live song performances - inspired by everything from PJ Harvey to The Tiger Lillies - the result is a polyphonic evening of theater between myth and the present, between bitter comedy and tender melancholy. An evening about what burns - and about what can arise from it.