It is a disaster foretold: the family dinner at Christmas. Many a viewer will probably recognise themselves in the setting of the boulevard comedy "Rosa Wolken". The highly emotional gathering of a handful of relatives is loaded with explosive material, whose blast and aftershocks reverberate for a long time. So it goes at the family dinner of the gay couple Alex and Leo and their relatives. The two reveal to their nearest and dearest that they would like to have a child. What happens next throws the audience into an emotional rollercoaster. "In many scenes we noticed the laughter sticking in the audience's throat, even though it is actually hilarious. But what is being negotiated is, after all, bitterly serious. The audience is being held up a mirror," Chris Gebert says of how the audience reacted during performances. The play would be no comedy, though, if there were not also hearty laughter and euphoric cheering, as the audience demonstrated every evening. "It is an unusual couple in what is actually a perfectly ordinary situation. But because they are a gay couple, their wish for a child is anything but a given, and it raises many moral, ethical and social questions. I think it is clever to tell this as a comedy." Playing one of the two leading roles in this equally entertaining and intelligent comedy, directed by Holger Berg, was no question at all for Chris Gebert but a great joy. "The play really is about something, and I found that wonderful. You send the audience away with something that is socially relevant." After the great success of the premiere and the further performances, the play will go on tour. From the end of 2018, ten performances across Germany are planned. A highlight, then, for the diary!
When the Bomb Goes Off
