SECOND SEASON // HAPPY HAPPY VINEYARDS
Hessische Theatertage, Stadttheater Giessen 2024
Showing SECOND SEASON (DE)FAST FORWARD Festival, Staatsschauspiel Dresden 2023
Showing SECOND SEASON (DE)Nationaltheater Mannheim 2023
Premiere SECOND SEASON (DE)SALT Oslo / Caféteatret Oslo 2022
Showing HHV (NO)Tårnby Park Studio Copenhagen 2022
Showing HHV (DK)FÜR DICH Festival, Theater Neben dem Turm Marburg 2021
Premiere HAPPY HAPPY VINEYARDS (DE)
Four chairs on an empty stage: Boys* in Sync are using the most iconic post dramatic theatre set up and transform it into a colorful and repulsive, happy happy dance.
Again, they are examining the play „Der fröhliche Weinberg“ by Carl Zuckmayer, this time through retelling the whole plot in their very own way. Together they frame and deconstruct the heteronormative storylines of the 100 year old theatre piece, trying to answer the most urging question: Can fun be political, in a time of existential fascist threats?
The friends from Poland, Norway, Denmark and Germany reflect on the rise of right wing movements in their own respective home countries and compare their European experiences with the situation of 1920’s Germany. They shit and pee and bruise and bleed, while recreating the most German theatre play that has ever been written.
„Renate is shitting in Katja’s wine. 1, 2, 3 good shits.“
50 min theatre performance / ongoing research
SECOND SEASON has been premiered at Nationaltheater Mannheim,
HAPPY HAPPY VINEYARDS at Theater Neben dem Turm Marburg
with Ragni Halle, Jakob Schnack Krog, Simon David Zeller & Gregers Hansen
Special thanks to René Alejandro Huari Mateus
with support from Kulturrådet Norway, Hessische Theaterakademie, Theater Neben dem Turm Marburg, FFUK Norway & Kulturamt Gießen
Photo credit: Maximilian Borchardt