WHAT´S ________ GOT TO DO WITH IT? (WT)
Attempt about the impossibilities of love
(in German, partly English)
In a jungle of pop culture, fairy tales and fucked-up family patterns, two people negotiate the impossibilities of romantic relationships. They fail, drop inhibitions and shame, discover new potentials and get to the bottom of love. Off into intimacy - let's go!
High expectations have always been attached to "love". The music industry and the film industry, poetry and prose fuel the belief in the inseparable bond with the one right person. Clichéd stories of love-at-first-sight and legendary perfect matches shape our perceptions. Against the backdrop of family role models and our own relationship experiences, the illusions collapse again and again, without disappearing completely. So are we lost for love in this undergrowth of hyper-romanticism?
Director Panni Néder and her team peel back the layers of our cultural, social and familial concepts of love. With a (self-)critical eye and sharp wit, they take love apart and reassemble it. They ask themselves and us: How can people meet, perceive, understand and love each other without bias? How to deal with all the emotional baggage? And how does our way of loving influence our social coexistence and our political self?
With Maja Lehrer / Laurenz Knill Direction/Conception/Video/Writing Panni Néder Dramaturgy Róbert Sági Set Design Dorka Kreisz Costume Design Sophie Peters Composition Ákos Zságer- Varga Video design Kiril Nagy Lighting design Alexander Junge Technical direction Johannes Götzke Production management Franziska Korte Production assistance Finja-Marie Wilke Dramaturgy intern Fruzsina Danszki Production soMermaids GbR Coproduction TD Berlin supported by Senate Department for Culture and Europe
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PANNI NÉDER studied directing at the University of Theater and Film in Budapest and at the HfS Ernst Busch as a DAAD guest student. Her successful Berlin stage debut "When was the last time you had sex on top of a mountain?" (2018) premiered at TD Berlin and continues to perform at German and international festivals and guest venues. She explores forms of autobiographical and documentary theater and combines them with movement, song or video art.
Photo: Panni Néder
Photo: Panni Néder
Photo: Panni Néder
Photo: Panni Néder
