The Kangaroo Chronicles (staged reading)

Views of a cheeky marsupial
after Marc-Uwe Kling
Performance rights with Verlag Voland & Quist GmbH, Berlin and Dresden

Direction and production:
Felix SommerTechnical Designer: Michael Kleinjohann

Oh. Mine, yours... These are bourgeois categories.

A small-time artist lives with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and is totally into Nirvana. The cabaret artist is a cabaret artist who doesn't want to be called a cabaret artist. The Kangaroo Chronicles tell of the adventures and verbal battles of this duo.
In the individual chapters, a picture of this unusual flat-sharing community emerges like a mosaic. The topics of conversation between the two range from media and language criticism to problems of the state and capitalism as well as questions of faith; from contemporary protest culture to Karl Marx, Bertolt Brecht and the RAF.

The audience finally gets answers to the most pressing questions of our time: Was the kangaroo really with the Vietcong? And why is it addicted to schnapps pralines? Could the essence of Hegel's complete works be packed into a text message? Is lying in a hammock already passive resistance? And finally, the question of all questions: Who is better - Bud Spencer or Terence Hill?

Duration: approx. 2 hours 10 minutes (incl. intermission)