In the organizer's words:

Outside the door

"A play that no theater wants to show and no audience wants to see."
- Wolfgang Borchert

Beckmann returns from the war. Three years of captivity lie behind him, but there is no arrival at home. The city is strange, the people are closed, the doors remain shut. Even death rejects him. Beckmann wants to return the responsibility of those who died under his command. He searches for guilt, for meaning, for a place where he can stay. But every encounter ends at a threshold: outside the door.

In this solo production, Borchert's play is not simply explored through acting, but also narrated, condensed and questioned. A single actor slips into the characters, summarizes scenes, stops, goes deeper into them - and back out again to reflect on what they have experienced, sometimes together with the audience. There is no fixed text: The performance works with free storytelling and moments of improvisation, giving each performance its own lively profile.

What if decisions were made differently?
What is right, what is wrong?
And who decides?

In the end, there is a court case - and perhaps even God himself enters the stage, not to give answers, but to ask questions.

This production of Outside the Door thus becomes a performance that does not close the story, but opens it up - for our present. It is a play that asks what remains when someone returns home and there is no one left to wait for them.

PREMIERE 23.04. 26, 7 pm Gewölbe Beyerhaus Leipzig

Director and playwright: David Leubne

Price information:

15 € regular 12 € reduced