Johann Jakob Wurster

Strandnah - Sonnig - Abgeschieden
Danse macabre, Grotesque
2 D, 5 H, St, Verwandlungsdek
frei zur UA
A man wakes up in the desert. He can’t explain how he got there. In the shimmering air of the alpine plateau, he experiences his past story in iridescent, fragmented scenes. It started out as a sarcastic comedy of relationships with an inconsequential father, a badly-adjusted son and a cynical mother who go on a perfect short family holiday; but, through an irrelevant holiday fling, it is suddenly transformed into something dark, boisterous, and grotesque. The man’s faint suspicion that he and his family are picnicking in the middle of a minefield is confirmed with a bang.
What lies in this man’s professional background? What does the family, which is being moved around the mines like it’s a chess board, really know? Layer by layer, private and professional facades are crumbling in the face of possible salvation from the labyrinthine minefield. Or is it just a harmless tourist family that has become the innocent victim of two war-cripples turned highwaymen that are playing ‘Battle Ships’? The audience is forced to change its mind over and over again in this vexatious game.
From a very subjective, private perspective, the fragile structure of a shady business deal is taken apart. Can responsibility be broken down into pieces? When do the ends justify the means? How much pressure does it take before things that have been suppressed for a long time emerge again?
Behind realistic conversation can be found a furiously tragic ‘danse macabre’. (Johann Jakob Wurster)