Nele Stuhler

"There are people who say that things have always been very complicated. And there are people who say that things are becoming more and more complicated. But that in any case, either today or always, things are not just one thing or the other, but both. Or neither. Or at least somehow contradictory. And if you can tolerate that, you are tolerant of ambiguity. There are people who say that life is better with a high tolerance for ambiguity. There are people who say that people do not generally have a high tolerance for ambiguity. And there are people who say that people today have less and less tolerance for ambiguity. That we can tolerate less and less. Or that we don't tolerate much in the first place. And that people then build structures that are less complicated. That simplify the world because contradictions cause them more and more stress. For example, with the help of dichotomies. There are people who say that people are making things easier for themselves. And there are people who say that people have always made things easy for themselves." Nele Stuhler

"It is a kind of linguistic score in which words float freely between the poles of binary thinking (...) Instead of dutifully and semi-ironically clinging to all the current discourses, they are teased out in a way that is open to association, and as a viewer you can always interject your own thoughts on the state of the world. You are free to read it as a crazy poem that pushes its way onto the stage using the theatre's most fundamental means – or as an attempt to find one's place in our complex present.‘ (Süddeutsche Zeitung on the premiere)

’The playwright and director Nele Stuhler has now written a wonderfully unconventional text that follows its own rules: in which she marvels at such juxtapositions, lets compound nouns melt on her tongue, takes idioms and dogmas to their succinct extreme, dissects them into neologisms and false spellings until the newly created nonsense encounters a more conventional counterpart, and so on." (FAZ)