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A remix of "Bookpink" by Caren Jeß and "The Birds" by Aristophanes

Athens' democracy is not at its best: fraud and mismanagement everywhere. No, this is no life, decide two of its (no less corrupt) citizens. They set off for a better place, which they imagine in the realm of the birds and end up in a bizarre cloud cuckoo land of our present day. With a light hand, young director Melanie Schmidt combines two feathered comedies - "The Birds" by Aristophanes and "Bookpink" by Caren Jeß - to create a colorful panopticon about the tiresome difference between desire and reality. The story takes place in the realm of birds, which are easily recognizable as human types of the present day: An esoteric turkey who makes others toil for her own gemstone home, a dirty peacock who has gone astray and dreams of elegant feathers, two rebellious flamingos who plan to break out of their cage and a white dove who longs for a baroque life full of music and beauty on a littered campsite. With musical support from Jeremy Heiß, the result is a scenic-musical revue about human abysses in feathers. Our "Afterlife" party will take place after the performance on 15.11.!