Martin Baltscheit

What do you do with a performance if the actors suddenly go on strike or are elsewhere? The director wants to cancel; the technician has already turned off the lights. Snow White Deluxe has to be cancelled, the audience is being sent home. But the audience doesn’t want to leave. A girl comes forward and thinks that the performance should still happen: if Snow White isn’t there, you could just invent another story. The director agrees. He gets Angelika on stage, and they playfully start inventing a story taken from real life – their own. Angelika, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy department store owner, has everything she wants and more. But she wants to kill herself. Only why?
The whole company gets involved in the play. They contribute their knowledge, take over different parts and search for the crux of the matter. Ben is brought in, a spectator just like Angelika, also sixteen. Ben’s story is about his unemployed father.

The play melts two stories into one. Using all the tools of theatre, it is told with a lot of humour and some feeling. One also gets to know quite a bit about theatre. But this isn’t a play in a play, but theatre becoming reality and reality only being real through theatre.