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Did you know that an audience's heartbeat aligns while watching a play? Nine acting students are showing themselves on a stage for the first time, studies in lockdown behind them, a life for the arts ahead of them. The play they are performing is based on the essay On Connection by Kae Tempest, poet and musician. What is it about? About everything: our lives, our pains, our hopes. About the belief that more connects us than separates us. And that theater can connect us. The play is a plea for a culture of compassion and cohesion in times of great disunity and political divisions. With the courage to be emotional and kitschy, with a good portion of theatrical passion, the players lay their hearts at our feet and invite the audience to form a community whose hearts beat together for 75 minutes.

On Connection by Kae Tempest, published by Faber & Faber in English (Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin in Germany), 2020, with permission of Lewinsohn Literary Agency Ltd

 

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  • Premiere: 22.01.2022

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theatre youth theatre

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Verbundensein: v.l.: Mischa Warken, Paul Heimel, Atrin Haghdoust Eva-Lina Wenners, Rebekka Wurst, Lotte Becker, Simon Jonathan Gierlich
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Atrin Haghdoust, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Mischa Warken, Rebekka Wurst, Paul Heimel, Lotte Becker, Paula Winteler,
Eva-Lina Wenners, Pit Prager
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: Oben: Atrin Haghdoust
v.l.: Mischa Warken, Paul Heimel, Eva-Lina Wenners, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Paula Winteler, Pit Prager
Vorne, v.li.: Rebekka Wurst, Lotte Becker
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Eva-Lina Wenners, Simon Jonathan Gierlich
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Paul Heimel, Paula Winteler, Pit Prager, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Atrin Haghdoust, Rebekka Wurst, Lotte Becker,
Eva-Lina Wenners, Mischa Warken
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: Eva-Lina Wenners
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Rebekka Wurst, Paula Winteler
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: Paula Winteler © Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Rebekka Wurst, Atrin Haghdoust, Lotte Becker, Simon Jonathan Gierlich
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Rebekka Wurst, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Lotte Becker
Vorne: Paula Winteler
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Mischa Warken, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Rebekka Wurst, Pit Prager, Lotte Becker, Atrin Haghdoust, Eva-Lina Wenners
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Paula Winteler, Mischa Warken, Rebekka Wurst, Pit Prager, Lotte Becker, Atrin Haghdoust, Eva-Lina Wenners, Simon Jonathan Gierlich,
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Mischa Warken, Lotte Becker, Pit Prager, Rebekka Wurst, Paula Winteler, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Atrin Haghdoust,
Eva-Lina Wenners, Paul Heimel
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Atrin Haghdoust, Rebekka Wurst, Pit Prager, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Eva-Lina Wenners
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Atrin Haghdoust, Paul Heimel
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: Pit Prager
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Rebekka Wurst, Eva-Lina Wenners, Atrin Haghdoust
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Lotte Becker, Pit Prager, Eva-Lina Wenners
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Paula Winteler, Paul Heimel, Eva-Lina Wenners, Mischa Warken, Rebekka Wurst, Atrin Haghdoust, Pit Prager, Simon Jonathan Gierlich
© Birgit Hupfeld
Verbundensein: v.l.: Pit Prager, Lotte Becker, Paul Heimel, Rebekka Wurst, Simon Jonathan Gierlich, Atrin Haghdoust, Mischa Warken,
Eva-Lina Werners
© Birgit Hupfeld

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