Presse – Hard Feelings (A report for an academy)

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Hard Feelings (A report for an academy), studioNAXOS, Frankfurt, 2020

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There is an infinite amount of hope in the world, just not for us.

(Kafka)

Much rhymes with German tier (“animal”), nothing rhymes with mensch (“human”). Kafka's canonical narrative “A Report for an Academy” (1920), which is the last nail in the coffin of man as the crown of creation, is brought to the stage in the theater performance “Hard Feelings” with a hyper-realistic animal. Narrative, Kafka's monkey turns out to be a man who skillfully manipulates his own fiction. But a monkey that has successfully become human does not simply become free, but ends up in a network of fictions that determines and limits it. As human beings, we live in nation states, live in dysfunctional families, and work on our biographies - questionable fictions that cannot be easily removed. What can we hope for? Using modern 3D tracking technology, a pianist and a gorilla bring Kafka's fiction back to life 100 years after its release.

Premiere on 15.10.2020. More shows on 16.10, 17.10. and 18.10.2020 in Frankfurt, on 17. and 18.12.2021 at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr.

With Judith Altmeyer, Jacob Bussmann, Jakob Engel, Laila Gerhardt, Maylin Habig, Tobias Rauch, Carmen Salinas, Philipp Scholtysik uvm.

A production by Stange Produktionen in cooperation with studioNAXOS and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, greatly supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste, cultural office of the city of Frankfurt, the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, NRW Kultursekretariat “digitale performance” and the „experimente#digital – Kulturinitiative der Aventis Foundation”.

Hard Feelings (A report for an academy)
Hard Feelings (A report for an academy)