Munich Volkstheater: Emotional state of emergency

Created: 07/01/2022 14:29

By: Michael Schleicher

Guest performance at the Munich Volkstheater in “Radikal Jung”: the production “Civilisation”.

© Alex Brenner/Munich Volkstheater

The Antler Theater from Great Britain was a guest at the "Radikal Jung" festival at the Munich Volkstheater: "Civilisation" by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart and Morgann Runacre-Temple tells the story of a woman in a state of emergency.

Our criticism:

Your shirt is lying.

"Too good to be true" is written on the washed-out clothes.

But in the life of this nameless woman, who we met on Thursday evening on Stage 1 of the Munich Volkstheater, nothing is good at the moment.

We don't know exactly what happened and we won't find out in the course of these intense 80 minutes.

Everything indicates that she had to bury her loved one – now she is alone and in an emotional state of emergency.

Munich Volkstheater: "Civilization" convinces

With "Civilisation" the director Jaz Woodcock-Stewart is a guest at the "Radikal Jung" festival at the Munich Volkstheater.

The evening that the Briton has worked on with the choreographer Morgan Runacre-Temple is enigmatic, deadly sad, wonderfully funny - and, if you get involved, of enormous intensity.

At the same time, the production fascinates with a lively mix of artistic forms of representation.

Caroline Moroney hardly needs words to tell a touching story about her character's life.

Everyday noises, but above all music, drive the story forward, which is commented on in the dance: Imogen Alvares, Stefania Pinato and their colleague Brannon Yau are as good at classical ballet as they are modern dance, hip-hop and quotes from silent film and slapstick classics in the choreography weave in.

"Too good to be true".

Incidentally, this also applies to the impression that the team from Great Britain has of the Volkstheater.

The artists wrote on Instagram about a photo of the new building: "Germany built this theater during the lockdown, what did the Conservatives in Great Britain do during this time?

Art funding cut by 50 percent and art removed from the curricula.” (More about the directors’ festival “Radikal Jung”? Read our review of the “Stripperstories” here.)

Further information:

The directors' festival "Radikal Jung" ends on Saturday, July 2, 2022, with "It's Britney, Bitch!"

(4 p.m. and 8 p.m.), "The Maid of Orleans" (7.30 p.m.) and "Karadeniz" (July 21). Watch);

then the graduation party.