| About Revolution in Kiel The talk is roaming, spinning, meandering, pirouetting in a marvelous aimless way, sometimes getting stuck before the men start new intellectual games ... The dialogue develops its own leaping dynamics – much more substantial than the mannequin mistresses or the space outfit evocate. Strange anyway the artificialness, which director Simeoni builds via stage set and music in contrast to the real world language. Since the text, which the authors obviously have taken from (their own?) conversation works in and of itself with its awareness of problems, its nonsense, and lyrical sallies. [Ruth Bender| Kieler Nachrichten] * * * About Revolution in Kiel “Revolution” is the title of the intelligent and entertaining play of the young authors Nils Mohl and Max Reinhold which had its German première in front of a highly exhilarated audience. Two figures meet here, letting their thoughts roam. ... Tritenesses next to vital questions, everything is important, nothing is important. From the fissures comedy and comment emerge. Even though the play doesn’t consist of any action, a lot happens between the figures , which the adroit directing of Diana Simeoni shows. Both figures are prototypes of a disillusioned generation, which keeps its helplessness in facing an increasingly complex world at a distance by talking until the cows come home. [Bea Opitz| nachrichten.schleswig-holstein.de]
* * * About Revolution in Kiel The revolution does not take place in the play “Revolution” by Nils Mohl and Max Reinhold, which had its german premiere at the Kiel theatre. Rather it’s failing to materialize may be the point. Two persons meet in the play, representatives of “Generation Golf” and make conversation - smalltalk on highest level. First there is a discussion about the up and coming apocalypse and then there will be a turn to bad cafeteria food and skin diseases. ... “Revolution” has no action, but a highly entertaining discourse which the audience greeted with many laughters. [Elske Brault| DeutschlandRadio Berlin] * * * About Revolution in Kiel The play “Revolution” by the two authors Nils Mohl and Max Reinhold firmly refrains from conventional action and simple offers for interpretation, that’s a job which is left to the audience. The protagonists, who both have no special traits, act relaxed and convincing; just as fitting are the sparse stage set and the sporadic music. At the end of the show the Pixies sing “Where’s my Mind”, which sums things up well. [ gama| kiel4kiel.de] * * * About Revolution in Kiel “It was after a lecture about the crisis in education when we first had the idea for this project”, Nils Mohl says, but his colleague Max Reinhold immediately cuts him short. “Funny thing, I thought we had just watched ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.” All of a sudden one has the impression of watching a scene from their joint debut play “Revolution”, which has its German première under the auspices of the “Line 17” at the Schauspielhaus Kiel. A dialogue, sometimes as communicative positional play, sometimes in low key bar talk, full of associations, ideas and phrases. [Thomas Richter| Kieler Nachrichten] * * * About Revolution in Zürich The young German writers Nils Mohl and Max Reinhold have made up their joint first play as a catch-as-catch-can of masculinity and hefty language. He who has the last word, asks the nastiest question, makes the most hair-splitting comment, strikes the most sexist blow has won. Umpire Christoph Moerikofer injects the ideal endorphine into the text: He stages “Revolution” as a grotesque, as a pitiful mock fight of impotent revolutionaries. And they are in such good hands with actors Hösslin and Müller that one is not only worried about their physical but even their mental health. But in the long run even these heroes of the evolution will be dead and thus the future belongs to the moment. Which is, in this case: an attractive young piece of diagnosis of our time.
[Daniele Muscionico| Neue Zürcher Zeitung] * * * About Revolution in Zürich The world is, notwithstanding different rumors spread by linguists, more than language. Sentences will not be enough to catch it. Attempts of definition and order are of limited scope and the main topics will disintegrate in the banal everyday life. On this foundation the german authors Nils Mohl and Max Reinhold have build their dialogue piece “Revolution”, which has found it’s way on stage – with just three weeks of rehearsals. Director cm emphasizes the nimble, witty aspect of the evening. Facing the shortcomings (of language) the actors svh and mm embark on more and more preposterous topics. Chase from pillar to post, from food in the cafeteria via cloning to the day of the apocalypse when the sun explodes. ... Don’t miss. [züritipp (Tages-Anzeiger)] * * * About Revolution in Basel This way, contrary to all supposed shallowness, language and preconditions of staging are reflected as well. Along with that is the questioning of the expressiveness of language. At the end of the play the question arises why brains splatting on a wall may be such an incredibly more interesting thing to look at than erect penises. Splatting brains in Pulp Fiction style were something one would never get to see and that was the reason they were more worthy of being shown than profane things taking place countless times every day. ... “Revolution” dodges this representational fervor of the grotesque thoroughly by putting things on stage not worth representation, thus celebrating everyday discourse and performing it. This is bold and radical and is put on stage accordingly. [BZ – Basellandschaftliche Zeitung] * * * About Revolution in Basel There is a lot to learn this evening – as an example, that the first cave paintings must have been made at at the same time when men got problems hooking up with women. Or that the expanding sun will roast the earth one day. Or that nobody knows a waitress. ... “Revolution” – a drama? Possibly. But maybe just a bizarre and amusing revue. An entertaining evening, no question. [Dominik Heitz| Basler Zeitung]
About the advanced literature kosmos of nils mohl esq. and max reinhold esq. Not everybody’s cup of tea. ... Ater the performance the opinions about the quality of the reading were widely split. But even though Nils Mohl and Max Reinhold weren’t able to delight their entire audience, they surely achieved one goal: to provocate. [Husumer Nachrichten]
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