Saturday, 16 November 2024 - Tuesday, 03 December 2024 Show all dates
Josef und Maria von Peter Turrini
A “Christmas tale for adults”
Joseph and Mary meet by chance on Christmas Eve in the staff room of a large department store. Both are actually already retired, but are supplementing their pensions as pre-Christmas temporary workers. Shortly before “Christmas Eve”, they get talking in the closed department store, telling each other about the stages of their lives, their wishes and dreams, hopes that have failed and been kept, political and private troubles. The result is a portrait of two lonely people from the backside of affluent society, who ultimately try to give each other some of the “appreciation” that the consumer-oriented world denies them in a spontaneous, illegal “celebration of love”. Peter Turrini relocates the stable of Bethlehem to an empty department store. Two outcasts make each other's acquaintance and identify loneliness in each other. They vehemently defend their past, bravely assert their present and look to the future with a stooped posture. The often-cited image of the abandoned elderly on Christmas Eve is reality and cannot be corrected by any false idyll. But Joseph and Mary seize the opportunity. They make themselves at home in the glittering world of goods and create a different Christmas. Turrini's “Christmas tale for adults” is one of his most beautiful and touching works.
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Arnfels - Theater im Kino