TD Berlin: COMMON THINGS

What do the things we accumulate in the course of our lives reveal about our origins, our thinking, the time they come from? Frank, a white middle-aged western academic, rearranges his favorite things, heirlooms and closet corpses against the backdrop of the zeitgeist with the help of the audience.

Frank is in his mid-40s and doesn't like throwing things away. His Neukölln apartment is full of things from different phases of his life. Now his father has died and new mementos and heirlooms are being added. What value does this or that thing still have for him or for others? Some of them used to be a central part of his identity, but now he sees them in a different light.With COMMON THINGS, Turbo Pascal creates a solo in which Frank deals with the different social voices in his head. What goes on the shelf, what is better left in the box, what can or must be thrown away? And what should perhaps be passed on one day? Can the audience help him?

The solo is not only an inventory of Frank's personal legacy, but also a commentary on flexibility and adaptability in a constantly changing world. How does our view of the things that surround us and of our own biography change when our common sense shifts? What kind of inner resistance is involved in learning processes? How often are we prepared to change in the course of a lifetime?

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"LIE WITH ME"

by Turbo Pascal,
as part of COMMON SENSES

June 14, 2024 at 9:00 p.m.

15 June 2024 at 20:00