89/90: The Great Disintegration

1989: All of Phantásia is under threat! The Nothing approaches at unstoppable speed from two sides: first as a real-socialist concrete mixer that threatens to armor the old conditions, and second as a neo-liberally flashing bulldozer that wants to sell the still older conditions as the latest solution and, on top of that, as without alternative. A cabbage that nestles so closely up against the wall that there is no room left in between for the dream of a better society that has yet to find its name – no room for fantasies, no hole through which to slip into another world – nothing.

With the help of the Will-o’-the-Wisp (Luise Meier, MRX Maschine), the chronicler (Karsten Krampitz, Wasserstand und Tauchtiefe) and Amanda Anfang as Michael Ende andcompany&Co. will reactivate the disintegration and redirect the dissolution energies of 1989/90 until the old lies become new stories and fantastic narratives: People hate to be taken for fools, but love to be taken for a ride.

Cast

Concept & direction: andcompany&Co. (Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Sascha Sulimma)
Text: Luise Meier, Karsten Krampitz, Alexander Karschnia &Co.
Music: Sascha Sulimma
With: Amanda Heinau, Verena Katz, Karsten Krampitz, Luise Meier, Nicola Nord, Ángela Ribera, Sascha Sulimma
Set: Jan Brokof &Co.
Stage and costume collaboration: Ángela Ribera
Light: Sebastian Zamponi
Sound: Deniz Sungur
Assistance direction: Verena Katz
Technical direction: Marc Zeuske
Construction: Jan Hoffmann
Company management: Caroline Farke
Production management: Rahel Häseler

Special thanks to: Jan Hoffmann – no egg without you.

Language: German

Duration: 90 min

 

Production: andcompany&Co. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, FFT Düsseldorf, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster. Funded by: Fonds Darstellende Künste, which is funded the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.