Lothar Kittstein

Letzte Tage
2 D
UA: 21.03.2007 · Produktion des Fringe Ensemble im theaterimballsaal · Directed by: Frank Heuel
"Normally I would have gotten up, I would have gotten ready and gone to work."

A secluded villa on the hill. A well-known television director gets ready for her work day. Her phone slips out of her hand and shatters on the marble floor of the kitchen—and suddenly the day doesn’t want to work anymore. The small accident becomes an insurmountable obstacle.

In front of the gate which closes off the entrance. A young girl in crumpled clothes enters the premises. We do not know if she is allowed to do this—her intentions and her relationship to the woman on the hill seem contradictory. Time and time again, she tries to take the path up through the forest to the rose garden, to the house which is strangely foreign and yet strangely familiar.

In repetitive loops, the women move toward each other. The text circles around their relationship to each other: Are they mother and daughter? Old enemies? Two lovers? The occurrences and even the objects in the play gain a strange life of their own. How have the snails made it to the entrance of the house? And who has left the glowing cigarette butts in front of the gate? A play about the longing for a lost home - and the impossibility of its fulfilment. (Lothar Kittstein)