Okay, so it's a trend here – groups of people reciting the same text simultaneously. That this text is about the rise of the alt-right is also somewhat expected. At first, watching “Nach uns das All – Das innere Team kennt keine Pause” reminded me so much of yesterday's “Am Köningsweg” that I almost gave up. Thank … Someone … I didn't. Everything that did not work or was over-explanatory in “Am Köningsweg”, was thankfully missing here: just four ladies ready to escape to Mars from the new society governed by neo-Nazis, and the four hopeful guys who have been beaten up so many times for not being superiorly white and angry enough, auditioning for the position of a sperm-donor, to create new human kind on Mars. Just an empty stage and eight performers in orange jumpsuits (orange is the new black as it is the colour of Mars-invaders). The performance is still a speech about what has gone wrong in our society but the way the performers deliver it – with a healthy dose of self-irony and without any fingers pointing at anyone but ourselves – does make you listen. And laugh, because you know that you are the same over-eager planet-saver, a professional in political correctness and a junky of everything digital who has made the new world, the world where all of the above has been called relics, happen. Yes, this production too quotes silly people's posts from social media and makes fun of hipster-beards and so on, and yes, the guys on stage are pitiful beyond belief, but since the actors clearly keep an eye on the balance between making fun of something and showing how that something relates to them and the audience members, the outcome is really fun and on-point. To the extent that when the performers take a minute of silence for their shame, I too want to stand up.
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