Lucien Haug

A man with broken wings plops down from the roof into the nest of a broken family: Tearjerker, famous throughout Switzerland for his botched Eurovision Song Contest. He finds a father and a son mourning their partner and mother, plus a lot of lived and repressed feelings, shy attempts at tenderness and the question of how it actually works with being there for each other.

Beyond dad worship and patriarchy, director Suna Gürler explores with four male socialized players between 13 and 41 what it means to be in a relationship together . And watches them learn to put illness and grief into words, slip into father roles, and test out family and friendship beyond what they take for granted. Living as a "man" and being interwoven with a living world - how could that work, despite all uncertainty? (Schauspielhaus Zürich)