Wonderwomb
BY Amir Gudarzi DIRECTED BY Theresa Thomasberger
premiere on 21.03.2025
synopsis
What a strange present, in which fossils compressed into liquid over millions of years are burnt as refined fuel in a motorbike, for example, and the resulting acceleration into the sunset means freedom for some. This promise of happiness must have something to do with repression, otherwise how could one endure joy being so obviously based on death?
Wonderwomb by Amir Gudarzi is a play about the entanglement of our present with oil: it is about dead animals as well as the dead of the wars that are waged for oil. It is about the entanglement of Iranian history with a racist policeman in Vienna, with Nordstream 2, with a speculator on the stock exchange who bets on oil prices. The text is an attempt at nothing less than the entire world context, a dramatic design to give complexity a form that does not lose hope despite all the excessive demands.
Theresa Thomasberger, who made her debut at Deutsches Theater Berlin last season with Klaus Theweleit's Männerphantasien, is now once again devoting herself to a multi-perspective text and dissecting the uncanny potential of petroleum, an everyday companion that is so natural and familiar.
Amir Gudarzi received the Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists in 2022 for Wonderwomb and updated the text with a new extension for the production in the Deutsches Theater's Box.
premiere
21.03.2025
cast and creative
- directed by Theresa Thomasberger
- Bühne und Kostüm Mirjam Schaal
- Musik Oskar Mayböck
- Dramaturgie Johann Otten
Termine → Wonderwomb
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Mon, 05. May 2025
BY Amir Gudarzi DIRECTED BY Theresa Thomasberger
Box
05.05.2025
19:30 → 20:50 Uhr
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Thu, 22. May 2025
BY Amir Gudarzi DIRECTED BY Theresa Thomasberger
Box
22.05.2025
19:30 → 20:50 Uhr
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Wed, 28. May 2025
BY Amir Gudarzi DIRECTED BY Theresa Thomasberger
Box
28.05.2025
19:30 → 20:50 Uhr