Zu guter Jetzt - Umzug ins Paradies

Pandora is dead. But that doesn't mean she'll shut up. It'll come to that! After all, she knows exactly what's in her box: whoever opens it will bring disaster into the world.

Her daughter Eva suspects that she is to blame, while her father believes he is the victim of history and her boyfriend measures reality in stock market prices.

What are we supposed to do here? Why don't we do better? Where do we go after that, is there paradise there and is there at least a rent control?

Marianne Blum's new play poses the all-important questions and plays with the answers in the form of a turbulent family story - seen from the perspective of the deceased mother.

Seen from death, life is ultimately a joke, especially what Pandora's daughter Eva and her boyfriend are upset about. At the same time, without death, life is meaningless and Eva's attempt to bribe the gods with heavenly music to get her mother back is as futile as it is tragicomic. At the opening of Pandora's Inheritance, it becomes clear that the other family members in particular are less interested in eternal life than in riches.

Rich theater with wit, music and dance!

Experience two young artists as congenial stage partners of the established singer and actress Marianne Blum, who will be heard and seen a lot more: the violinist Marijn Seiffert and the trombonist Gilbert Millich. In "Zu guter Jetzt", the two not only shine as fantastic instrumentalists, but also as talented actors and singers. They also inspire with furious choreography, which allows Marijn Seiffert in particular to show off her dancing skills.

With this piece, Marianne Blum delivers a new sample of her humorous work. In it, she manages the feat of telling a surprising story with the help of light-footed dialogs full of wordplay, in which the trio's wide-ranging music, interpreted in an unusual but always excellent way, is part of and fuel for the plot.

In "Zu guter Jetzt", a modern version of the "Orpheus and Eurydice" story is negotiated, combined with the Pandora myth and a pinch of Adam and Eve. These three ancient legends relate to each other historically, belong together in terms of content and touch on core themes that are timelessly topical: When we experience really serious life changes, does art help? Why do we only appreciate so many things when we have lost them? Why should women be to blame for everything and why is this nonsense still told today?