Starting with a Russian existialist story this stage design is drawing inspiration from Parisian cafés frequented by existentialist thinkers. Nine solitaire Thonet chairs serve as essential elements of the stage design. Custom modifications have altered their function and comfort, compelling the actors to move and perform in response, bringing absurdity into play just as life is.

„We were born between two millennia. We are still young. 

Fukuyama proclaimed to us the „end of history“. We missed out on history. We tell stories of the self and self-realization. Stories of Europe. We feel foreign. We are afraid of strangers. We welcome strangers. Rarely do we say „we“.
We often say „I“. We are alone. We are lonely. As one of the last generations, we are born to die. We try not to think about it. We prefer to search for ourselves. We have forgotten that we do not exist.
In his most famous novel, the exiled author Gaito Gasdanow tells of loneliness and the grinding wheel of history. In Berlin and Paris, this production confronts his existentialism with the intoxicating freedom of the 21st century.“