A greenhouse stands at the edge of the town: Concord Floral. To the locals, this disused site, crumbling away over the years, is a place charged with myth, radiating unease from every corner. To the teenagers of the area, it is a meeting point for all the adventures of growing up. At night-time parties, amid drug use and sexual encounters, social pecking orders are settled, dares are taken on and a fleeting sense of belonging is celebrated. Until one night two friends discover the body of a girl there — a find that tears open old wounds and quite literally haunts the teenagers.
As in a mystery thriller, the Canadian playwright Jordan Tannahill peels back, layer by layer, the ghosts of the past, weaving a sequence of images — at times poetic, at times brutally realistic — around bullying, the search for identity and conflicts between the generations.
Director Lilli-Hannah Hoepner tells this coming-of-age story with a multilingual ensemble of students from Filmuniversität Babelsberg.
PREMIERE 28 OCT 2022 / A COLLABORATION BETWEEN HANS OTTO THEATER AND FILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF
Further performances: https://www.hansottotheater.de/spielplan/monatsplan/concord-floral/2172/
Ensemble: Samson Fischer, Henning Hermia Gerdes, Fabian Hanis, Luca Estelle Horvath, Viktoria Kosorukova, Emilie Neumeister, Anastasiia Mazhara, Anastasiia Nikitenko, Max Wolter