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Tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov / adapted by Martin Crimp / German by Peter Hilton Fliegel
// German-language premiere

Kostya has written a monologue that is to revolutionize the theater. His beloved Nina is to play him. The young poet has not reckoned with the mockery of society, led by his own mother, the theater diva Irina Arkadina. She in turn tries to cover up her ageing with a young lover who can think of nothing better than to fall in love with Nina.
In Chekhov's famous "Comedy Journey into the Heart of Darkness" (G. Stadelmaier), everyone is unhappily in love with the wrong people and complains that there is not enough money. They only rarely realize that there are more important things than their own belly button, and even then the realization is covered up with irony.