Mabuse…? Didn’t he play in the world economic crisis? And what is it that players in the world economic crisis do? The financial crisis is a turbulent comedy of errors. It’s the honest surprise about the irrational in a vicinity of pure rationality. But what’s being replaced here? Since nothing is there at all! This smells like market fundamentalism! “... And how nice it is to be wrong: This evening is one of moving humour and astounding intelligence, a small, but singular theatre experience.”(Der Tagesspiegel)

RENÉ POLLESCH, born in 1962, devoted himself to Applied Theatre Studies at Gießen. In 1996 he had a working scholarship with the Royal Court Theatre in London inclusive of seminars with Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, etc. During the 1999/2000 season he was house author at the Lucerne Theatre, and in autumn 2000 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

Since the 2001/2002 season Pollesch has been organizing the Prater programme at Berlin's Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. In 2002, Pollesch was elected the best German dramatist in a survey of critics conducted by the magazine Theater heute.
Stage: Fabian Hinrichs, costumes: Bert Neumann

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