Someone invented the supermarket. And the freezer. And the receipt. Hard to believe... But what does the supermarket tell us about our society? And what does it know about us? The theater collective imaginary company delves into a place that we believe claims to be a “natural” part of our everyday lives. Using receipts, the collective embarks on a journey into the belly of capitalism.
The performance group imaginary company was formed in 2017/18 during the next generation workspace residency at Mousonturm Frankfurt. The five artists in the group are united by the question of how to create sophisticated political theater for children and young people that takes its audience seriously as spectators and players. The focus is on the immediate experience of often abstract, complex issues in the form of performative and literary alienations of reality, which are usually preceded by extensive research.
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Infos
- Age: 12+
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Language: In spoken German
Sponsors and Supporters
Idea and concept: imaginary company
Performance: Liese Lyon, Arthur Romanowski
Director: Arthur Romanowski
Stage and costume design: Marina Rengel Lucena
Tech and video: Lars Löffler
Artistic production: take the money and run GbR
Photo: Katrin Schander
Many thanks to Marina Bock's school class (IGS Herder School)
"SUPERMARXT – Der Bauch von Frankfurt" (SUPERMARXT – The Belly of Frankfurt) is a co-production by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm as part of the Junge Theaterwerkstatt am Zoo (Young Theater Workshop at the Zoo) and Theaterhaus Frankfurt. Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research.
