The violence out there scares us – the violence of others. The violence in politics and love. But it’s not just “out there”, it’s inside me and you. It is in all of us. It is in our feelings, our bodies, our language, in our absences – as a mirror of the neoliberal regime with its late fascist fruits. How can we design ourselves responsively into this reality without preventing each other?
In the current triumph of narcissistic shaming, in the climate of polarisation, the creation of fear, the terror of unambiguity, we do not allow ourselves to take place. Who can manage not to shame themselves or others? We erase ourselves psychologically. And I simply don’t realise myself; I don’t realise how I do it. The absence between us is loud. Encounters don’t happen because I don’t let you happen and I deny my absence as emotional violence against you. Denial as a creed of capitalism. It’s so sad, it’s brutal, it’s so hyper-real. It’s such an incredible pity. It’s such a shame. So how does it work: a critique of narcissism as a critique of fascism?
Malte Schlösser’s texts bring together the complexity of the psyche and criticism of power: To think social critique without trauma-sensitivity is empty and to think psyche without hyper-real society is naive, according to Malte Schlösser & team. They counter the neo-capitalist symptoms of individual failure with a theatre experience.
On Thursday 22 February, audience discussion following the performance in collaboration with Theaterscoutings.
By and with Hauke Heumann / Emma Rönnebeck/ Valentin Richter
In the film Malte Schlösser / Rainald Grebe / Meike Droste / Julius Feldmeier / Anne Ratte-Polle
Concept/Director/Text Malte Schlösser
Co-director/text dramaturgy Marie Jordan
Music Michelangelo Contini
Light/Stage Bruno Pocheron / Yi-Ju Chou
Costumes Maria Magdalena Emmerig
Video artist/camera Nicolas Gebbe
Dramaturgy Sophie Lembcke
Assistant Director/Dramaturgy Assistant/Prompter Jewgenija Conradi
Production Management Aurora Kellermann
Technical production management Chris Wohlrab
Production Assistant Ludwig / Freya Adorf
Outside-Eye Anna Krauß
Make-up Lilith Franz
Camera Anna Lotte Baulitz
Public Relations Nora Gores
Photos Alexander Huber
Graphics KruseundMüller
Video documentation Christopher Hewitt
Language German. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Coproduction TD Berlin
