Clown Play - World Premiere

Written by Anja Panse   Director Uli Hoch and Anja Panse   Stage Anja Panse   Costume Dinah Ehm   Cast Anna Keil, Dinah Ehm und Anja Panse   Fotos Ralph Bergel   Production Triple A   Premiere 27.10.2023 20h Brotfabrik Berlin   More dates September 2024 Brotfabrik  

Foto: Ralph Bergel
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It is dark. There is nothing.
Then there is sky and earth.
Sun and moon. Plants and animals.
And finally - the human being.

Two clowns create a world for themselves. A world full of vibrancy and possibilities, and yet the two repeatedly get into arguments and violent confrontations. The two play their way through the course of history. We look back with them to Cain and Abel, the Crusades and religious wars, the Inquisition and the burning of witches, as well as the Napoleon War and the war for oil. They would have killed each other long ago if it weren't for the wise clown, a cook, who tries to show them new horizons through peace and love.


Will they all three be able to dine together peacefully in the end?

The conception of the play was supported by a research grant from the Fonds Darstellender Künste.

Cast

Anna Keil
Anja Panse
Dinah Ehm

Director: Uli Hoch

From the press

The new play by TRIPLE A is set in Berlin's Brotfabrik, a romantic cultural venue in Weissensee. It has the strange name "Peace Food or The Last Soup". In fact, there is a large pot of soup on the theatre stage. Behind it is the white cook (Dinah Ehm). She is chopping vegetables, leeks and carrots. While it already smells a bit like broth, two clowns (Anja Panse and Anna Keil) want to make the world a better place. But that only leads to bickering and arguments. Hasn't that always been the case? Yes, of course, we are reminded of Cain and Abel, the brothers in the Old Testament, oh yes, terrible wars at all times and for all kinds of reasons: Greed, ideologies and religions, wounded pride and the many revenges. Despite the horrors of that time, people still do it again and again - like the two clowns in the theatre. If the wise (and white) cook had not brought the two brawlers to their senses, the peace soup would have become inedible. And it wasn't: soon the audience was sitting at the benches and tables brought in, chewing and discussing, praising the lentil dish and the deep, but also entertaining play and its actors (text: Anja Panse - director: Uli Hoch, costume: Dinah Ehm). What do we learn from this? If everyone getsenough to eat and is allowed to speak out, whether it's criticism or praise, there will be no arguments....

Ingrid Bergmann 10. November 2023 online

Dates

Sat 20.09.2025
20:00
Halver /NRW

Thanks

Special thanks go to Annegret Enderle for her great support and to the photographer Ralph Bergel for the photos.

A big thank you to our sponsors and supporters. With YOUR help we can realise this project!

Dora Leao, Astrid Andersen, Ursula Bohm, Eberhard Heimann, Angela Buddecke, Harald Panse, Hans Christian und Gisa Keil, Bettina Fintelmann, Beatrice Blatter, Ina und Ralf Rößler, Elfriede Krutsch, Edith Körber, Olaf Umlauft, Frank Strobel, Heribert Weitz, Gertraud Teuchert-Noodt, Carola Kliesche, Rotraut Laskowski, Renate und Stefan Langhammer, Frank Damerius, Susette und Uwe Preißler, Anne-Kathrin Bartholomäus, Petra Hofmann, Kerstin Boddenberg, Renate und Manfred Swoboda, Andreas Keller, Esther Zschieschow, Ute Riechers, Anna Siegrot, Lisa und Lukas Scheer, Jan Dahlgrün, Ines und Volker Wetzk, Katharina Kautzsch, Mathias Poland, Florian und Helvi Körner, Anne Tietz Beyer, Annette Meyer, Julius Besen, Christiane Wittig, Barbara Zepnick, Markus Lerch