Alexander Müller-Elmau

Joa is in an empty room. The narrow window is open, a telephone is on the floor, the door is closed. The ceiling slowly lowers itself, imperceptibly.
Joa walks around the room, counting his steps. He desperately tries to arrange his thoughts, forces himself to rest, fights against fear.
Then he remembers, he is supposed to prepare a meal. But the table, the chairs, and the food are missing. Joa takes a banana out of his pocket. With chalk he draws a table on the floor, around it 12 chairs, then just as many plates. He puts the banana in the middle. The president is to sit at the head of the table - a presidential dinner it will be. The banana is not enough for everyone.
Again and again, Joa hears the death cry of a pig, a sound which always hits him like a lightning bolt and causes him to writhe with pain.
Joa fights again against his fear, forces himself to rest. He is still alive, "everything is all right".
Down to the last detail, he prepares the presidential dinner. He's getting more and more hectic.
There is the death-cry of a pig. The room is filled with blood. Desperately, Joa tries to wash it away. Just as a test, he sits at the President's place. When he gets up, he notices that the room has become smaller, the ceiling hangs deeper. The window has disappeared. Joa has to crawl on all fours.
Joa's Traumy is a breathless, surrealist monologue about fear, the unknown menace - a nightmare. Language and space produce their own eerie tension, which in the course of the play increases to become intolerable.