Yes. Do it. Now.

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Data
Title: Yes. Do it. Now.
Genus: Chamber play
Original language: German
Author: Günter Senkel & Feridun Zaimoglu
Premiere: September 10, 2003
Place of premiere: Schwankhalle , Bremen
people
  • Director
  • actress

Yes. Do it. Now. is a two-person play by Zaimoglu / Senkel from 2003. It was premiered on September 10, 2003 by the Junge Theater Bremen under the direction of Nomena Struß . It was the opening piece for the theater group's move to the new Schwankhalle .

The text version of the play was published in 2004 together with two other stage works by the team of authors ( Casino Leger and Halb so wild ) under the title Three attempts about love in the M & V publishing and distribution community. The text is also available individually from Rowohlt-Theater-Verlag .

content

Yes. Do it. Now. deals with sick casting situations early on , as they have since become commonplace in television programs. This is where the situation between an auditing actress and the director takes place. The sadistic director humiliates her willing victim with increasing intensity mind games down to the blood.

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The ensemble of the Junge Theater, which premiered it, had already shown a theater version of the early Zaimoglu texts Kanak Sprak and Koppstoff under the direction of Rainer Iwersen in 1996 . Since then, the group has brought Zaimoglu more frequently to various events (also in collaboration with the author himself). With yes. Do it. Now. the Junge Theater Bremen was able to premiere an original theater text by the poet for the first time. The taz bremen reviewed the premiere on September 17, 2003 under the heading “Do you break when you bend?”. Marion Dick from Die Zeit reported that the piece “hits the core of today's television casting shows”. About the recording by the audience, "that authenticity and artificiality are blurred:" You are still in the scene! "Warns the dominatrix when the girl wants to get out. Only the audience actually seems confused and doesn't really dare to clap. Is it still in the scene? ”. The news magazine Der Spiegel had also pointed out the premiere production.

In 2008, the Kammerspiel was performed at the Berliner Brotfabrik, staged by Udo Höppner and played by Maja (Lynn) Makowski and Rebekka Köbernick. Friederike Klasen from Berliner Stadtmagazin 030 said yes in connection with the new performance . Do it. Now. a “play for die-hard people”: “When the boundaries between reality and script finally dissolve, the viewer asks himself whether it is pathological ambition or masochism that makes the girl endure this ordeal.”

credentials

  1. ^ A b Marion Dick: Ade, dear me; DIE ZEIT, 40/2003
  2. ↑ THEATER: Premieres . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 2003 ( online - Aug. 25, 2003 ).

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