Schaumstoff Laden
A play by Georgia Gray
 
Fri, 9. September 2016, 8 pm & Sun, 11. September 2016, 8 pm
Doors at 7 pm - First come first serve!
 
A 70s dark comedy, the play centres around the daily events in a lone plastic foam store: the Schaumstoff Laden. Customers drift in from the street, looking for foam to give them comfort and relief.
 
Foam: useful for everything that is not really purposeful, something to just fill in and absorb. Foam fills ideas of community, economy, and desire with an empty fluffiness. Foam dampens the din in between work and leisure. 70s raunch and glitz add a layer of kitsch to the stale white structure of foam. The all-male cast renders any distinction between the ordinary and the queer irrelevant: the characters are lightweight and shallow, as if lifted from a sitcom. The story might seem somewhat familiar – full of ideas the viewer has already encountered. The twisted need to restate the obvious leaves one wondering about the person who actually imagined these situations: a moody person who has a certain obsession with refusal, maybe a delinquent teenager who just won’t accept any social hierarchies or authoritative viewpoints. A person who is unwilling to accept “seriousness” to a tragic, even self-destructive degree. The audience is left to turn to themselves to identify that outsider.
 
Gray previously wrote and directed the play DD Mood (2014) at New Theater, Berlin, a theater that was built fundamentally on collaborations between musicians, artists and writers.
 
Costumes by Leila Hekmat & Mia von Matt
Produced by Atalay Yavuz, facetime, Max Pitegoff & Calla Henkel
 
Starring: Patrick Armstrong, Dan Bodan, Preston Chaunsumlit, Julian Garcia, Kyle Joseph, Pablo Larios, Patrick McGraw, Felix Mura, Isaac Penn, Elias Pitegoff, Billy Rennekamp, Tobias Spichtig
 
Special thanks to Olga Balema
 
With kind support by Julia Stoschek and
 

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