Nice couch, shit relationship: Sebastian Schwarz and Marie Burchard in »Ex«
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola
An oversized brown leather sofa is in the Globe, one of the smaller venues of the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz – as a preliminary proof that style -conscious academics not only have taste, but also the necessary assets for purchases of this kind. And when the game starts, the toy dinosaurs start to move on the floor. So children live here, the viewer knows. And the next 120 minutes of all sorts of information will be granted to him similarly directly and unexcited without being necessary.
No abstract signs have to be learned to read the imagination, only listen to the relationship conflicts held on stage. In the best moments by Marius of Mayenburg’s piece »Ex«, which came to the German -language premiere last Wednesday, this is entertaining to amusing, but mostly only transparent to banal.
Sibylle (Marie Burchard) is a doctor. Alone she makes it comfortable on the sofa, looks at her laptop a documentary about a famous doctor and has a glass of white wine. It is what you would call professionally successfully. Within the given borders, of course. In your case, the boundaries are your two children.
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Daniel (Samuel Schwarz) will soon come home. He works as an architect, he is working as well or as bad as his wife Sibylle professionally. Financially, this “match” can be assumed to be carelessness.
There is an hostile mood between the two. The relationship obviously suffers from gradually disappeared tenderness. The communication patterns are not unknown: everyone understands the others as wrong as their own imagination just gives it. The two performers make up for their cause. And from Mayenburg, “ex” wrote a fast -paced chamber game. But, you inevitably ask yourself, do you really have to travel to Ku’damm to be there when fictional characters argue very eloquently?
But then Franziska (Eva Meckbach) appears. She is the title of Daniel. She just separated from her boyfriend and doesn’t know where to put it with. Then she remembers the man who left her for another woman years ago, and she just stands at the door.
From Mayenburg remains with his biting dialogues. The new situation, which is expected to be less harmonious, conjures up old conflicts. Sibylle argues with Franziska. Daniel argues with Sibylle. And Franziska argues with Daniel. So the whole thing turns terribly quickly in a circle.
In order to expand the relationship drama with a social level, the figure of the Franziska is compared to the academic budget: it has always been working in a pet shop and cannot always fully follow the more or less highly trouble conversations of arrogant educational citizens.
In »Ex« the contemptuous look at the »down there« is humoristically demonstrated. Daniel also imagines his ex -girlfriend as a sexually available stupid. The criticism of this may be well meant. Just stupid that Franziska really appears as an emotionally exuberant, but not particularly reflective figure, which after a few minutes ponderes her love life. It soon becomes apparently that this theater evening no longer has volte. Everything remains manageable and good. At most, »Ex« scratches the self -pictures in the audience very carefully.
Maybe the toy dinosaurs have a deeper meaning than the very obvious one? A petty -bourgeois family ideal, which acts ancientally, is considered with a harmless criticism that is at least as old.
Next performances: 18th, 19th and 20.3.
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