Vor dem Fall

In the organizer's words:

German-language premiere

A play by Hadrien Raccah
German by Jona Spreter

Lisa, Marc, Benjamin and Tom have been best friends since their youth, now they are in their late 30s and in the middle of life - at least on paper. The four of them finally get together again for the birth of Tom's first child, and after they are accidentally locked out on the terrace, it becomes clear that midlife means more crisis and less fun for all four of them than they thought: Marc has just been dumped, Benjamin has been fired, Lisa is having an affair with a married man and all three think Tom's newborn is downright ugly. After one of these truths is spoken, the bourgeois facades crumble inexorably ...

With a great deal of humor and empathy for his characters, Raccah lets the four friends wrestle over unpleasant truths, different life plans and their friendship in quick exchanges. The title of the play "Before the Fall" refers both to the famous proverb "Pride comes before a fall", which could easily be applied to one or other of the characters in the play, and to the fact that any one of us could fall quickly in the end. But the time before that is the interesting part!

Director: Martin Woelffer
Stage and costumes: Stephan Fernau
Music: LUCA
Dramaturgy: Helke Rüder

With Marius Bistritzky, Max von Pufendorf, Nadine Schori, Alexander Wipprecht