In the organizer's words:

Play

by Samuel Beckett | in the translation by Elmar Tophoven
In German language

In a post-catastrophe world, four lost clowns play a tragicomic endgame. But nobody seems to know the rules of the game and the end just won't come into sight. The only thing left to do is to keep playing. Jonas Mangler directs this absurd classic with great empathy for Beckett's characters and a fine sense of his dark humor. Everything has come to a standstill - time, hope, movement. Only Hamm, the supposedly blind ruler, and his companion Clov remain behind. One cannot stand, the other cannot sit. In their mutual dependence, they circle endlessly around each other, caught between absurd routines, despair and attempts to escape. And then there are Hamm's parents, who clamor for porridge and attention. As often as Clov announces that he is leaving them all, he returns - driven by what? "Pity", Hamm suspects. Or fear. Or even love for the failed father figure? Beckett, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote his existential and comedic play in the mid-1950s in the face of a shattered present and an uncertain future. His absurd clowns are part post-apocalyptic farce, part social study of human power games and dependencies. Always in search of meaning in a world that has long since ceased to provide answers. This content has been machine translated.