Are we always just like the other, are we interchangeable? The third-semester students use Ionesco's absurd play to comically explore our imprisonment in speech bubbles, clichés, and banalities.

Ionesco was very surprised when the audience laughed during his play. He had intended it to be tragic. His characters use their talk to cover up the thoughtlessness and boredom that reigns between them. They are victims of their language, prisoners of everyday chatter. Engaging with a play that can be classified—in the broadest sense—as “theater of the absurd” is a great linguistic, physical and comedic-acting challenge for the third-semester students. It is also an invitation to question one's own perceptions and to playfully explore the complexity of language and its meaning.

Featuring: Can Braastad-Tiffon, Dascha Dumont, Lara Durtschi, Philine Heyer, Cosmo Keller, Sharjill Khawaja, Paula Schulze, Ujjol Teichmann

Artistic Direction: Werner Wölbern
Choreography: Martin Nachbar
Vocal coach: Philipp Wiegand
Outside Eye: Marion Tiedtke