HAPPY VINEYARDS
Det Frie Felts Festival 2022, Husets Teater, Copenhagen (DK)
ARENA Festival 2022, Publikumspreis/Audience Award, Erlangen (DE)
Körber Studio Junge Regie 2022, Thalia Theater, Hamburg (DE)
BeSTival 2022, Gaskessel, Bern (CH)
Sprungturm Festival 2021 (Premiere), Theater Quarantäne, Darmstadt (DE)
UWE Festival 2021, August Everding Akademie, Munich (DE) [cancelled:covid19]
Theatermaschine 2020, Theaterlabor Giessen (DE) [cancelled:covid19]
Für Dich Für Dich Für Dich 2020, Theater Neben dem Turm, Marburg (DE) [cancelled:covid19]
“The Highlight of the festival. It is disorientation and comedy at the highest level. The show is going on tour - keep an eye on it.”
Anne Liisberg, Iscene.dk
“A celebration of the possibilities of theater and an invitation to explore all the different ways they can go”
Jens Fischer, Deutsche Bühne
“A sort of Post-Post-Dramatik Theatre (…). Sweet Dreams are made of this.”
Falk Schreiber, theater heute
“The zest for life and the frustration of life, portrayed in one single moment. Awesome!”
Manfred Koch, Erlanger Nachrichten
It’s a summer in the time of corona and Boys* in Sync are meeting to reflect on the Rise of the European Political Far Right.
The basis of their practical research is a German theatre play from 1925: “Der fröhliche Weinberg" (eng: The Happy Vineyard) by Carl Zuckmayer, a rough and dirty soap opera about heteronormative love intrigues - a bestseller, just like the autobiography "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler, published in the same year.
Together with their co-performers Ragni, Gregers and Jay, who are stuck behind their national borders, Jakob and Simon are connecting choreographic elements with references of drama theatre history as well as stereotypes of togetherness and masculinity, opening up a space that merges between clowning, contemporary dance and a teenage slumber party.
A comment on the contemporary theatre discourse, never leaving the liminal space between angry-nonsense and seriousness.
„We’re not here to make art for artists, we are here to make art for the people, because we know, that their lives would be better, if they came to see our shows.“
60 min dance/theatre performance, premiered 2021
with Ragni Halle, Jakob Schnack Krog, Simon David Zeller, Jay Tebogo Fiskerstrand & Gregers Hansen
Outside Eye: Naja Schønemann
With special thanks to Bernhard Siebert, Laura Stellacci, Theater Quarantäne Darmstadt
& Theater Neben dem Turm Marburg
Photo credit: Svenja Polonij