IN:KON:SIS:TEN:ZEN.

Malte Schlösser and his team try to escape the constraints of a successful society, the need to function and the omnipresent expectations. IN:KON:SIS:TEN:ZEN performs a balancing act between slapstick and consolation, between narrative emptiness and the heightening of being. This evening of theater has no intention of succeeding and yet sets out to succeed, to create new connections and celebrate the moment of coming together.

Success stories determine the way we talk and think: no sentence and no interest, no look, no gesture and no feeling that is not scrutinized. How can these stories be rewritten or deprived of meaning? With the help of lost words, contrived jokes, cinematic hyper-realities and musical melancholy, three performers attempt to break out and counter the ideas of "successful biographies". But is this even possible?

IN:KON:SIS:TEN:ZEN moves on the edges of banality and post-splatter and makes use of the aesthetics of rupture. But, and this is the dilemma, you have to be able to do that again. Through contradictions, sentences hanging in the air and contemplative abandonment, this evening approaches the living being despite the pressure of success and expectation and explores the open. A game of failure that neither wants to win nor lose.

"An evening that revolves and turns around everything in a sporty and witty way, where people slip on bananas, extreme physical theater à la Holzinger [...] parodies [...] and yet the most beautiful insights into one's own dilemmas blossom..."

- Berliner Zeitung, 02.2023 -

"... that an evening about failure can also succeed (...) is also due to the great acting trio: behind Grahs' skeptical-ironic gaze, Rönnebeck's physical slapstick and Hohnloser's mock naivety, worlds open up."

- Berliner Morgenpost, 02.2023 -

A co-production with TD Berlin, with the kind support of Theaterhaus Mitte.
Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Capital Cultural Fund and the Ilse and Dr. Horst Rusch Foundation.