Die Odyssee (The Odyssey)

What do you do when your progenitor is a dominant father figure, shrouded in mythology and never at home, because he is off having adventures that can’t even be verified? You bring the hero into your room and make mincemeat of his incredible tales. In “The Odyssey – A wandering journey”, Antú Romero Nunes tells the story of Odysseus’ sons Telemachus and Telegonous: How they finally meet as young men and go on to assimilate their father’s violent stories together. Nunes builds this fraternal chamber drama in the face of the massive paternal vacancy on hoopla and virtuoso slapstick, propelling it through all conceivable psychological and pop-cultural stages of emotionality, into escalation and back out again. With the help of only apparently harmless cabaret acts and a specially invented art-language, actors Thomas Niehaus and Paul Schröder develop a fierce fantasy of emancipation. Smellt nach aventiure!

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