Die lacherliche Finsternis

Author: Lotz, Wolfram

Hamann, Frida-Lovisa

Hartinger, Dorothee

Reinsperger, Stefanie

Striebeck, Catrin

Set Designer: Parizek, Dusan David

Stage Director: Parizek, Dusan David

Costume Designer: Polivkova, Kamila

Lighting Designer: Dreyer, Felix

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Catalogue Number: THE08030

UPC: 4260415080301

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A Somali pirate asks in front of the Hamburg district court for understanding his attack on the cargo ship MS Taipan and complains about the loss of his friend Tofdau. Sergeant Major Pellner and Private Dorsch drive into the rainforests of Afghanistan with a patrol boat. Your mission: liquidation of a crazy Lieutenant Colonel. The journey leads deeper and deeper into a jumbled world in which colonial history and neo-colonial realities are inextricably linked. Further and further away from so-called civilization, into the wilderness and darkness. When the drowned pirate Tofdau unexpectedly returns to history and begs for help in the darkness, he is shot dead by First Sergeant Pellner. Because in this story there is no room for a stranger.

Whimsical and filigree, ironic and at the same time infinitely sad, Wolfram Lotz describes in his text our inability to really understand the stranger: the horror of a distant war, another culture, another human being, and finally even himself.