A society caught in the hamster wheel of extreme individualism dutifully accepts the most uniform canon of all: the conventional family. Why? Allow me to tell it to you straight – because of love. And yet, we are still incapable to believe in love. Love is in a crisis – the more images of it we create, the more fragmented the reality of love becomes. However, what kind of world can we build when we can’t even utter such words as ‘love’ and ‘devotion’ without being embarrassed.

DIRECTION, STAGE DESIGN Ulrich Rasche TEXT Nis-Momme Stockmann MUSIC Ari Benjamin Meyers COSTUMES Sara Schwartz WITH Corinna Kirchhoff, Toni Jessen, Bettina Hoppe, Kornelia Lüdorff, Dorothea Arnold, Timo Weisschnur, Dominik Paul Weber sowie Guillaume Francois (Tenor) und Mitgliedern des Zafraan Ensemble: Miguel Pérez Iňesta, Zoé Cartier, Thomas Merkel COMPANY MANAGEMENT Eva-Karen Tittmann TECHNICS / LIGHT DESIGN Arne Schmitt ASSISTANCE DIRECTION Benjamin Eggers

A production by Ulrich Rasche in coproduktion with Kampnagel Hamburg, Kunstfest Weimar and SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by Schauspiels Frankfurt / Main. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Special thanks to our media partner taz.die tageszeitung

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