Gesine Danckwart

Come with us with our propaganda meteor on a short long journey home: the theatrical-movielike performance on a completely unremarkable remarkable square in Cologne: Krefelderstraße, intersection Aquino- and Balthasarstraße. A square, looking as if it was built for being played on, but at the same time too irrelevant to have a name. A gap, emptiness, opening of the slightly boring house facades, only recognisable as a square at second glance. Corner houses from the fifties – backdrop buildings typical for Cologne. Two restaurants, one kebab shop “Balthasar”. A kiosk for everything you could need for short-term survival and the church St. Gertrud for more long-term plans. From above, look it up in Google Maps, the church looks like a flash. For this backdrop, a 3D-play is being developed. Discovering the world in daily details.
The audience walks over and through the square’s stories, the places of use, the church. Can you hear? In the behind overground? The overtone choir has been rehearsing here for half an eternity. We will play on this square. With actors. Residents. With them. Audience in motion. With our protagonists. Who lives here? How? Do you believe? If you had to leave on the next Mars expedition tomorrow, what would you take to space – and what would you leave behind?
The focus is the meteor. A theatre miracle machine. Propaganda robur and multiplex theatre in one. The research mobile and mirror cabinet we’re transmitting the square radio from. Craned up for the final showdown. (Schauspiel Köln)