AufBruch presents the performance "UNDERGROUND" in the framework of PROVA Project
UNDERGROUND
free after motifs of the eponymous film by Emir Kusturica
Theatre production in the vaulted cellar of the former royal town brewery
Premiere: 12th September 2018
Performances: 14., 15., 16., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 26., 27., 28., 29. and 30. September 2018 at 7.30 pm
Underground by Emir Kusturica tells about several decades of friendship between two crooks: Marko and Blacky. They enjoy life in Belgrade and both love the famous actress Natalja. When the German Wehrmacht invaded in 1941, they joined the Communist Party and procured by their "craft" the necessary financial means for resistance. While Blacky goes underground to direct weapons production, Marko forwards the trading of weapons aboveground - even after the end of the war. Because Marko keeps Blacky in the underground in the belief that the Second World War would go on and on. The result is an underground colony, in which celebrated and suffered extensively. By chance, Blacky and his son Jowan finally come back to light in 1991, in the middle of the Balkan war.
AufBruch combines motifs from the Kusturica film with scenes from Maxim Gorky's "Night Asylum" in this theatre production. In the narrowness of the existential underground, they clash love and hatred, religion and unbelief, pleasure and suffering, solidarity and selfishness. This results in a bizarre series of scenes about the madness of history, about those cruel, even cruelly comical confusions of reality and fiction, of life ideal and lies of life.
The break-up ensemble of former prisoners, free-lancers, actors and citizens of Berlin, as well as four musicians, play in the underground vault of the former royal town brewery in Prenzlauer Berg. During the Second World War, components for V weapons were produced there in the former ice cellar. Real Berlin underground becomes the stage for a game of boundaries and longings that have much to do with the experience space of the prison.
