Unser Dorf soll schöner werden

German and Dutch actors portray contemplatives on the eve before the Apocalypse. During their last supper, they try with all their might to still turn the fateful tide. Can we reform our entrenched systems? How do we manage our lives, our businesses, our world? Or is there nothing left to manage?

The performance is based on a series of in-depth interviews Wunderbaum conducted with the top figures in science, international activism, business, architecture and politics.

These people were asked the question: what change in direction do we need? Wunderbaum, the Munich Kammerspiele and Johan Simons intertwine their statements with mythological stories and visual tableaux. Unser Dorf soll schöner werden is thus a performance about idealism and naïve ideas, honest ambitions and absurd misunderstandings, uproar and change.

By and with

  • Walter Bart
  • Maartje Remmers
  • Marleen Scholten
  • Stefan Hunstein
  • Steven Scharf

Design

  • Maarten van Otterdijk

Director

  • Johan Simons

Dramaturgy

  • Matthias Günther

Sound Design

  • Richard Janssen

Translator

  • Jeroen Versteele

Technician

  • Siemen van der Werf

Production manager

  • Elly Scheele

Producer

  • Wunderbaum
  • Münchner Kammerspiele

Co-producer

  • Rotterdamse Schouwburg

in cooperation with

  • Salima Belhaj
  • Lex Bohlmeijer
  • Elma van Boxel
  • Sabine Sluijters
  • Jan Rotmans
  • Willem Schinkel
  • Jonas Staal
  • Mirko Borsche
  • Jo Lendle
  • Alexander Rossner
  • Kirsten Gabriele Schrick
  • Harald Welzer

Production coordinator

  • Carry Hendriks

Photography

  • Tanja Kernweiss
  • Julian Baumann

Past dates

  • December 2015

    22

    Theater aan het Vrijthof
    Maastricht (NL)

  • December 2015

    16

    Theater aan het Spui
    Den Haag (NL)

  • December 2015

    15

    Theater aan het Spui
    Den Haag (NL)

  • December 2015

    11

    Chassé Theater
    Breda (NL)

  • December 2015

    04

    Rotterdamse Schouwburg
    Rotterdam (NL)

  • December 2015

    03

    Rotterdamse Schouwburg
    Rotterdam (NL)

  • December 2015

    02

    Rotterdamse Schouwburg
    Rotterdam (NL)

  • November 2015

    27

    Stadstheater Arnhem
    Arnhem

  • October 2015

    17

    Monty
    Antwerpen (BE)

  • October 2015

    16

    Monty
    Antwerpen (BE)

  • September 2015

    23

    Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
    Amsterdam (NL)

  • September 2015

    22

    Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
    Amsterdam (NL)

  • August 2015

    21

    Oude Kerk
    Amsterdam (NL)

  • July 2015

    06

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • July 2015

    05

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • April 2015

    29

    Rotterdamse Schouwburg
    Rotterdam (NL)

  • April 2015

    28

    Rotterdamse Schouwburg
    Rotterdam (NL)

  • March 2015

    14

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • March 2015

    13

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • March 2015

    12

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • March 2015

    09

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • March 2015

    08

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • March 2015

    07

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • March 2015

    06

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • February 2015

    28

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • February 2015

    27

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • February 2015

    26

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

  • February 2015

    24

    Münchner Kammerspiele
    München (DE)

“An equally absurd and intelligent performance about nothing less than the future of the world”
FrankFurter neue Presse

“Saukomic”
DeutschlanDFunk

“The piece Unser Dorf soll Schöner werden, like Wunderbaum’s entire four-year (2013-2016) cycle ‘The New Forest’, is about transition, including this piece. But Wunderbaum itself, like its subject matter, is also in transition. Perhaps that is the most exciting thing to see.”
Rotterdam Vandaag

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