Unfortunately already over
Unfortunately, the event you have called is already in the past.
Unfortunately, the event you have called is already in the past.
Who is besieging whom? The plague a medieval city, the Nazis the whole of Europe, power-hungry and unscrupulous ass-kicking populists every single synapse in the brain? Albert Camus' play, first performed 76 years ago, seems today like an apocalyptic prophecy whose fulfillment is becoming ever more real.
Who is besieging whom? The plague a medieval city, the Nazis the whole of Europe, power-hungry and unscrupulous asshole populists every single synapse in our brains? And what do we do when we are under siege, when dictators seize power, want to take us over, control us and keep us down? Do we resist - do we adapt? Do we crawl into our temples of fear and simply watch what happens to us, how we lose our humanity?
The totalitarian claim to power - embodied in the allegorical figure of the plague - conquers people. After the "cleansing" there is only fear, silence, order and organization. Those who do not submit and adapt are deported, concentrated and killed. And death does a good job without complaint. Nada - the personification of nothingness - sees through everything and is therefore tired of life, eagerly and drunkenly awaiting extermination. Only one resists: the young doctor Diego, who is in love.
Overcoming fear as the last resistance!
A production by Stage Hogs (VR Youth Art School) under the direction of Mandy Lehm
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