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play

based on the script by İlker Çatak and Johannes Duncker | world premiere
In German language

A series of thefts disrupts the social fabric of a school. While teacher Carla Nowak struggles for justice, suspicions and denunciations increase. İlker Çatak's multi-award-winning film is brought to the stage for the first time in Adrian Figueroa's atmospheric production. Math and sports teacher Carla Nowak is motivated to start a new job. But the school where she has recently started working has a problem: recurring thefts are putting a strain on the community and testing the moral compass of everyone involved. How can school peace be restored? When Carla's pupil Ali Yilmaz is suspected in front of the class without proof, she decides to help solve the case herself. An atmospheric thriller that follows Carla Nowak through an increasingly escalating conflict, "The Staffroom" deals with fundamental questions: Who do we trust? Who do we suspect? What is fair? And who do we give a second chance? As in a model social experiment, school management, staff and pupils wrestle over the right behavior. Their dialogues reveal an overall social panorama of unconscious prejudices, power relations, conflict dynamics and expectations of education and school. The script and stage adaptation also give a voice to the pupils who will shape our society in the future: Together with the Nationaltheater ensemble, a group of 15 children and young people from Mannheim and the region take to the stage. This content has been machine translated.