Bakunin in the Back Seat
by Dirk Laucke
“I was dreaming of war when I was awakened by the kicks.”
Jörg is dead. After receiving his eviction notice, he turned on the gas. Jörg’s dog, Bakunin, survived and is taken out into the city by Steven, a real estate agent who plans to turn Jörg’s apartment building into a car loft. To Bakunin, the city resembles a world in a perpetual state of emergency, where everyone is at war with one another. Eddi, Jorg’s former nurse and Moni, the waitress at the “Fettecke”, begin searching for Bakunin and try to give Jörg a fitting send-off. Meanwhile, Steven comes into conflict with Jan – the son of his girlfriend Charlotte – when the 17-year-old tries to set fire to Steven’s car. Urban spaces, in which competing interests often clash, call into question the ideals which inform our lives and those of others. Narrator Bakunin observes five very different people, all so busy trying to fulfil their own dreams that they fail to notice one another. Hot on the heels of 'Für alle reicht es nicht' (There’s not enough to go round), which premiered on the DT’s Box stage in April 2010, 'Bakunin in the
Back Seat' is the second Dirk Laucke play in the Deutsches Theater’s repertoire.
Specially commissioned by the Deutsches Theater Berlin
Jörg is dead. After receiving his eviction notice, he turned on the gas. Jörg’s dog, Bakunin, survived and is taken out into the city by Steven, a real estate agent who plans to turn Jörg’s apartment building into a car loft. To Bakunin, the city resembles a world in a perpetual state of emergency, where everyone is at war with one another. Eddi, Jorg’s former nurse and Moni, the waitress at the “Fettecke”, begin searching for Bakunin and try to give Jörg a fitting send-off. Meanwhile, Steven comes into conflict with Jan – the son of his girlfriend Charlotte – when the 17-year-old tries to set fire to Steven’s car. Urban spaces, in which competing interests often clash, call into question the ideals which inform our lives and those of others. Narrator Bakunin observes five very different people, all so busy trying to fulfil their own dreams that they fail to notice one another. Hot on the heels of 'Für alle reicht es nicht' (There’s not enough to go round), which premiered on the DT’s Box stage in April 2010, 'Bakunin in the
Back Seat' is the second Dirk Laucke play in the Deutsches Theater’s repertoire.
Specially commissioned by the Deutsches Theater Berlin
Director Sabine Auf der Heyde
Costumes Annegret Riediger
Music Jacob Suske
Drawings Chrigel Farner
Dramaturgy Ulrich Beck
World Premiere October 8, 2010
Matthias NeukirchBakunin
Isabel SchosnigCharlotte
Moritz GroveSteven
Anita VulesicaEddi
Simone von ZglinickiMoni
Hauke DiekampJan
Bakunin
Charlotte
Steven
Eddi
Moni
Jan
Die vollständige Kritik finden Sie hier. Nein, wir begeben uns mit dieser Laucke-Novität nicht ins 'philosophische Quartett' (wie das Stück selbst augenzwinkernd anmerkt). Laucke bleibt ganz der sensible Menschenschauer. Theorien interessieren ihn nur in der Form, wie sie unter Leute geraten: als halbverdaute, gemeinplatzige. Lauckes Metier sind die idees reçues. Darin ist er ganz Realist. - Und doch ist dieses neue Werk in seinem Spiel mit realistischen Konventionen so frei, so perspektivenreich und voller sinnfälliger Abschweifungen, dass man sagen möchte: Fürwahr, ja, etwas Bakunin'scher Geist weht darin. Nie gab es bei Laucke mehr anarchische Lust, mehr Spiel mit der literarischen Form.
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