Kostprobe: Bookpink

In the organizer's words:

Introduction and rehearsal visit. If you would like to know what to expect from our new productions and upcoming concerts before the premiere, the taster sessions are the right place for you. They offer all interested parties the opportunity to get an insight into our program in advance - free of charge! This time: "Bookpink", a dramatic compendium by Caren Jeß, which premieres on February 15 in the Kleines Haus of the Stadttheater.

About the play:

The play begins with an impertinence: in the foreword, the author claims that Bookpink is Low German for book finch. The fact that this is simply not true sets the tone for everything that follows. Namely a play in which the characters are called "Dreckspfau" or "Die Tagesform" and the marsh tit now calls itself Veroniko and no longer wants to shave its legs. By now at the latest, both experienced and inexperienced theatergoers suspect that expectations of the theatrical experience are being played with here.

In Caren Jeß' "dramatic compendium", the otherwise wordless birds have their say and conjure up the abysses and visions of our confusing present. In seven artful and wonderfully slanted miniatures, the author dissects the impositions of our increasingly fragmented and constantly agitated society.