KAFKAMASCHINE

A little boy becomes the mayor of London with the help of a cat, a fainting woman pays an unexpected visit, the sky doesn't believe in the existence of crows and an old man with wings doesn't know where to fly. Oddities and misunderstandings abound and the eighth wonder of the world remains elusive.

In his stories, notes and fragments, Franz Kafka writes of dreamlike and absurd encounters, of arbitrariness, power and powerlessness in a way that is sometimes almost frighteningly topical. Two actresses and a machine search for the light at the end of the tunnel, digging deeper and deeper into Franz Kafka's strange, poetic and sometimes surprisingly comical worlds.

Following on from productions such as DAS HAUS VERLIERT NIX (The house loses nothing, 2020) and VOM SCHLIMMSTEN DAS BESTE (The best of the worst, 2010), director Lorenz Seib invents a new stage machine, a fully automated theater machine. This KAFKA MACHINE sets the rhythm of the evening, because everything that happens is triggered by this machine. Like Kafka's human beings, the actresses are confronted with a power that is inscrutable and dominates everything, which they cannot understand and on whose arbitrariness they are dependent.
An apparatus of strange beauty.

With Irene Rovan, Lena Vogt

Idea and direction: Lorenz Seib
Set design: Claudia Karpfinger, Katharina Schmidt, Lorenz Seib
Collaboration machine: Frank Sattler
Lighting: Wolfgang Förster
Assistant director: Doris Länglacher

Premiere on Saturday, March 16 / 8 pm

Performances:

Wed March 20/Thu March 21/Fri March 22/Sat March 23

Wed 03/Thu 04/Fri 05/Sat 06 April

Wed 10/Thu 11/Fri 12/Sat 13 April

Wed 01/Thu 02/Fri 03/Sat 04 May

Wed 08 / Thu 09 / Fri 10 / Sat 11 May

each at 8 pm

Admission 25 € / 17 € / 10 €

With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Munich