Food, Friend or Forced Labour

How can we live together? In a shared flat, in a country, on Earth, with other living beings, speaking different languages. No matter where we are, we are constantly influenced by those around us – and often they do not behave as we would like them to.

Even within our own bodies, we are not alone: billions of gut bacteria live there and help us digest the world. Are they pets or flatmates? What are the power dynamics here, both inside and out?

Three characters try to come to terms with one another in a confined space. At first friendly yet distant, then fiercely entwined, they are drawn into an ever-intensifying whirlpool of conversation: one fears that her cat will eat her, another discovers deep feelings for his compost worms, and the third attempts to treat her depression with a faecal transplant. Driven by all manner of half-baked knowledge gleaned from Google, their three stories intertwine: parallels and paradoxes emerge, the childish veers into global politics and back again – until one of them bursts into tears.

Rapid exchanges of words meet poetic monologues, a heap of earth meets bodies – at times naïve, mostly humorous and sometimes brutal, with the occasional break for a bite to eat. You’ll find little here in the way of a guide to world peace. But with unshakeable dedication, they carry on talking – talking past one another.

Languages used in the play include German, English, Bulgarian and dialect.

Cast: Sophie Kirsch, Mila Lyutskanova, Moritz Praxmarer
Dramaturgical support: Lea Goebel, Georg Klüver-Pfandtner

For adults and young people aged 12 and over.
With the support of the Aargau Curatorium, the Swisslos Fund of the Canton of Solothurn, the Ernst Göhner Foundation, Thik Theatre Baden and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute Haus Wittgenstein