5 November | 19:00 – Bulandra Theatre, Toma Caragiu Hall (Icoanei)
„Waste!” is a documentary fairy tale in which real facts mix with invented situations, in which people, fish, bears, peacocks and other species and typologies cross when interest demands it.
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By: Gianina Cărbunariu
Translation into German: Fabiola Eidloth
Dramaturgy: Carolin Losch, Christina Schlögl
Cast: Boris Burgstaller, Elias Krischke, Marco Massafra, Jannik Mühlenweg, Sebastian Röhrle, Christiane Roßbach
Directed by: Gianina Cărbunariu
Set and costumes by: Dorothee Curio
Music: Emilian Gatsov, Louis Stiens
Producer: Schauspiel Stuttgart (Germany)
Duration: 1h 40min
Not suitable under 14 years of age
Performance in German with Romanian and English subtitles
At the far end of Europe, in small Romanian villages, German factories (and not just them) burn mountains of garbage brought from the West and turn them into concrete, obviously to build a better world. They say the air is so pure in these areas that company CEOs decide to place peacock aviaries inside, and the fish from the lakes and ponds around have started to fly – not just because of the unacceptably high quantities of ammonia in the water, as rumor has it, but, obviously, out of sheer joy. There are various possible scenarios, this is just one of them.
Of all these scenarios, the one of European solidarity seems currently to be particularly difficult to sustain, given that economic inequalities are being used by developed countries as a way to solve ecological issues by outsourcing them towards Eastern Europe countries. This while, since many years now, cheap labour moves just as intensively, just in the opposite direction.
Photo credit: Björn Klein
