KAPUTT

In the organizer's words:

CAPITAL, PSYCHOSIS AND THE BIG OTHER
a co-production by Tim Mrosek, COMEDIA Theater and studiobühneköln

The performances take place at the COMEDIA Theater.

On a storm-tossed island lies the cemetery of the homeless. Five existentially bored characters meet here, all of whom have been waiting for a long time to continue their journey to the end, as if Sartre and Beckett had played a semi-witty trick on them: Dora, the missing twin sister of Don Draper, the Italian pop singer Mina, the vicar's daughter Gudrun E., a contract killer named Marcus Caligula and the post-monarchist Betty Le Mack negotiate the end of capitalism in this meta-literary limbo against better employment. Which, according to Mark Fisher, is much harder to imagine than the end of the world. But let's do it anyway...

KAPUTT is the last part of the trilogy WORDS DON'T COME EASY and follows the two productions DRECKSTÜCK (2021) and TOTAL (2023), which were nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize and deal with the effects of linguistic communication and its political consequences. In KAPUTT, the focus is on capitalist language and its all-encompassing, deadening and brutalizing effect on social interaction in so-called civilized societies. The production explores - in the form of a "well-made-play" with psychologically (over)motivated characters - how capitalist language, trained by propaganda, advertising and political codes, became part of people's behavioural DNA in the 20th and 21st centuries.