CALL ME(,) DADDY ODER RETTET DIE ZÄRTLICHKEIT ODER DIE RÄUBER ABER NICHT VON SCHILLER SONDERN VON DEIN HERZ

Performance: CALL ME(,) DADDY ODERRETTET DIE ZÄRTLICHKEIT ODER DIE RÄUBER ABER NICHT VONSCHILLER SONDERN VON DEIN HERZ

Fri 11. & Sat 12.04, 19.30h, for all young people aged 15 and over

"Let me do 15 push-ups - that's how I punish myself when I make mistakes," says Jeremy Fragrance, posing with his muscles. "Feminism may ignore young men, but capitalist, patriarchal men don't," writes Bell Hooks. And you think, "I think I hate myself."

But sometimes you also think, "I think I can be happy." And imagine your father sometimes dancing secretly in the kitchen and someone singing the lines from the radio, "I can't stop anymore, I've traveled so far to change this lonely life. I want to know what love is." This piece is a performative approach to the topic of masculinity, a search for clues.

With texts by us, our fathers, ABBA, Jeremy Fragrance and ChatGPT, we confront the spiral of violence and loneliness with the questions: What is patriarchal masculinity? Is there a feminist masculinity? What would happen if all men turned into bunnies for a few minutes? How can we save tenderness?

A production of the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

A cooperation of the Max Reinhardt Seminar with DSCHUNGEL WIEN.

In German.