
Let Them Eat Money. Which Future?! (Let Them Eat Money. Welche Zukunft?!)
by Andres Veiel in collaboration with Jutta Doberstein
A look into the future! Using participatory formats, Andres Veiel has written a play based on a collaboration with academics and citizens on the subjects of work, finance, the environment, etc., which deals with the past in the future: in 2028, a committee of inquiry asks who is responsible for the events of the years 2018 to 2028. After Italy’s withdrawal from the EU in 2023, Europe finds itself facing one of the biggest crises in its history – reason enough to take countermeasures and introduce an unconditional basic income in the rest of the EU. But an economic crash is unstoppable. Can the cause be found in a random chain of the best intentions? Andres Veiel’s aim is to confront conflicting visions of the future beyond the confines of legislative periods or political party interests. So both utopian and dystopian moments are equally up for discussion. What steps are were tracing? And which are we leaving behind?
Coproduction with The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, sponsored by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.
Information on the research and the overall project can also be found at www.welchezukunft.org
Coproduction with The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, sponsored by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.
Information on the research and the overall project can also be found at www.welchezukunft.org
Director Andres Veiel
Costumes Michaela Barth
Video Daniel Hengst
Music Fabian Kalker
Movement and aerial acrobatics choreography Sasha Krohn
Dramaturgy Ulrich Beck
World premiere
28 September 2018, Deutsches Theater
Co-production with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
28 September 2018, Deutsches Theater
Co-production with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Kathleen MorgeneyerYldune Kaayan

Thorsten HierseHans "Onz" Perret

Susanne-Marie WrageFranca Roloeg

Paul GrillRappo Rosser

Timo WeisschnurStefan Tarp

Jörg PoseFrerich Konnst

Celia Bähr / Luise HartSina, Yldune's daughter
Jürgen HuthJürgen Bandowski

Fabian Kalker / Nicolas FehrLive music
Yldune Kaayan
Hans "Onz" Perret
Franca Roloeg
Rappo Rosser
Stefan Tarp
Frerich Konnst
Celia Bähr / Luise Hart
Sina, Yldune's daughter
Jürgen Bandowski
Fabian Kalker / Nicolas Fehr
Live music
A profound theatre laboratory, an exuberant piece of intellectual theatre, conceptually a successful research experiment. Veiel offers up [...] a beguiling thought experiment, a cleverly thought-out dystopia, which is never content with simple questions or simple solutions and often touches on the problems of reality. [...]
A profound theatre laboratory, an exuberant piece of intellectual theatre, conceptually a successful research experiment.
The result is an engrossing drama that skillfully avoids preaching or propagandizing [...] The script by Mr. Veiel, a noted filmmaker, and his collaborator Jutta Doberstein does a fine job dramatizing the complex ideas developed during the workshops, explaining complex hypothetical economic and political scenarios in clever and nuanced ways. The tight eight-person cast spends a lot of time explaining what went wrong and how, but the fluid and sleekly futuristic staging, featuring video projections, stark lighting and some onstage acrobatics, holds the audience's attention well.
The result is an engrossing drama that skillfully avoids preaching or propagandizing [...]