Maja Zade's play ABGRUND sets out to expose the superficiality of a class, its self-satisfaction, its affluent neglect. Its characters have lost touch with depth, with the incomprehensible, with suffering. Here is one of the many compelling reviews that captures the play succinctly and clearly: "Not a single sentence is spoken on this theatre evening that isn't being said in exactly the same way somewhere else in this city at the very same moment. Hyperrealism. A moral history of the present day," writes Simon Strauss in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (4 April 2019), praising Maja Zade's "well-made play" to the skies. The play "makes its way, in superb Anglo-Saxon fashion, on a conversational course through the flat emotional landscape of contemporary city life. And then shatters the mirror-smooth surface with a single blow of fate." Abgrund by Maja Zade. World premiere. Director: Thomas Ostermeier, set and costumes: Nina Wetzel, video: Sébastien Dupouey, music: Nils Ostendorf, sound design: Jochen Jezussek, dramaturgy: Maja Zade, lighting: Erich Schneider. With: Christoph Gawenda, Moritz Gottwald, Jenny König, Laurenz Laufenberg, Isabelle Redfern, Alina Stiegler
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