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