How to Date a Feminist

In the organizer's words:

Samantha Ellis' wonderfully humorous stroke of genius about the burning issue of feminism today and the question of who is the more flawless feminist in this pairing, the woman or the man, was premiered in London in 2016 and has gone on to have an impressive career on German-speaking stages.

Kate likes macho men, Steve is a feminist. He grew up in a women's protest camp, she as a sheltered only child in a London suburb. Kate's father thinks Steve is too "different", Steve's mother thinks Kate is materialistic and unemancipated. Nevertheless, Kate and Steve find each other irresistible - and end up in a quick-witted comedy in which the two actors take aim at the complexities of relationships and traditional gender roles in rapid-fire role changes: "How do feminism and a weakness for bastards go together? What does it say about you if you don't exactly find your partner's insistence on consideration and respect erotic?" (The Stage) And, last but not least: can a man really be a feminist? In fact, Kate and Steve's marriage is already on the rocks at the wedding reception - and it takes both of them a huge leap over their own shadows to become a real couple after all in a furious finale.

"Director Jonathan Heidorn stages the short scenes one after the other with great pace and a good sense for punchlines." Hamburger Abendblatt

Director: Jonathan Heidorn
Set design: Yvonne Schäfer
With Anjorka Strechel and Joseph Reichelt

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