Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

Flinntheater from Kassel penetrate German reality with impressions from the Nigerian megacity Lagos. The echoes of this confrontation point towards an imminent absurd-realistic future. What happens when Germany is struck by a weeklong power shortage and the Chinese build gigantic solar plants in the Sahara? How does Tesla the inventor want to prevent war just with the help of a remote controller? Why does the young Nigerian Ademola suddenly leave a Nollywood script to land in Kassel? And who will bring healing and salvation, when the crude oil of happiness runs dry? Two actors and a musician step onto a ritual playing field located somewhere between performance, storytelling and science fiction to evoke the future of global inversion with divine blackouts and the wireless energy of preaching

The Power Play is one of twelve select productions, shown as part of “made in Hesse 100% Theatre”, the 2. State Theatre Festival of the Independent Performing Arts.  The audience is given the rare chance to experience exceptional productions from other cities in Hesse. The festival is organized by laPROF, Association for the Professional Performing Arts in Hesse, funded by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, the Sparkassen Cultural Foundation Hesse-Thuringia and thirteen dedicated municipalities..

Directed by: Sophia Stepf * With Toks Körner, Andi Otto, Lisa Stepf * Special Guest: Konradin Kunze * Music: Andi Otto * Text: Flinntheater * Co-produced by the Goethe Institute Nigeria * Funded by Kulturhaus Dock 4 Kassel, Kassel Kultur 2012, Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, Gerhard-Fieseler Foundation, WELL Being Foundation, kara burun tours & Sparda Bank Hessen * Supported by Traudel Seher.