Revolution, a play for two figures, focused on dialogue. No plot. The dynamics of the play results from the dynamics of the conversation. This conversation is – as conversations are – steered by a mixture of questions and answers, straight arguments, hard facts (whatever hard facts may be – one of the things questioned in the play), associations (as hovering as associations often are) and the intrinsic texture of the talk. Talk may or may not be a fight, a mutual investigation of a question, a vehicle to prove oneself or one’s world construction.
Revolution is a how and why things happen in our heads. Processed, stored, saved, dismissed, distorted, lost.
Culture, reality, things do not simply happen monadically in our mind, they are construed and constructed communicatively. Communication builds our world. This does not only apply to abstract concepts and entities, but also to the most concrete things. This is a basic awareness which the 20th century brought us and we are still (and will, for a long time) working on an understanding of how that operates. That’s what the play is about – it is a part of that investigation.
The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” judged: “an attractive young piece diagnosis of our time.”
Opening Night
April 24, 2003 in Basel, Raum
33 (CH)
Director: Christoph Moerikofer
Actors: Martin Müller, Silvester
von Hösslin
Dates: April 26, Mai 2-4, 2003
Guest Performances
Bern (Schlachthaus Theater): Mai 8, 10, 11, 2003
Zürich (Theater Neumarkt): June 18, 20, 21, 2003
München (pathos transport theater): December 27, 28, 30, 2003
German Debut Performance
March 8, 2004 in Kiel (Schauspielhaus)
Director: Diana Simeoni
Actors: David Allers, Marko Gebbert