My first time ... at the Even Theatre

Editor Gretta Bott

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Langstrasse can even do theatre! Thanks to a grey-blue Rubik's Cube hidden behind the legendary shoe shop Peter & Vreni.

I'm even a theatre fan now. I wouldn't have signed that until two weeks ago.

But from the beginning:

At the invitation of the theatre, I go to the play "Mensch, du hast Recht" last Thursday and already while searching and finding the theatre I think of a little treasure hunt: From Langstrasse*, seekers pass through the tunnel at Peter & Vreni into a quiet courtyard that houses a rather small dark grey-blue cube for a building. Inside: the even theatre.
*The more official entrance is probably the one from Josefstrasse, seen in the cover picture.

Founded in 1998 by Doris Aebi and Peter Brunner in a cantina, it alluded to the special location - the open drug scene in Kreis 5: Besides a fixer-upper and drug transshipment point, the area should even be able to do theatre. Since then, the sogar theatre has established itself as a literary small theatre and has already been awarded various prizes.

Blick von der Josefstrasse in den Innenhof und das sogar Theater.

Before the play, visitors fortify themselves in the theatre bar. Beautiful books from the nearby Limmat Verlag and other houses, the reportage booklets and poems on the wall make for an entertaining wait for the performance to begin.

I would like to recommend the play "Mensch, du hast Recht" to everyone. It is a play that in one hour brings up all 30 articles of human rights in a musical and captivating way, questions them and, always performed in the subjunctive, encourages one to question oneself: Does the country I am in at the moment adhere to the human rights agreements of the United Nations made in 1948? What about these human rights in the case of war? In the case of murder? And: Do they really apply equally to all people, including women? Or Muslims?

On this evening, the Theatre in the Bar is organising an open discussion between the ensemble and the audience to discuss just such questions. I don't feel like it, but leave the play and the theatre bright-eyed all the same. Other points that make me a fan of the Kleintheater are that it is truly inclusive and offers reading evenings with audio description or tactile introduction as well as readings in sign language. It is wheelchair accessible and also offers plays in simple language so that foreign speakers can learn and/or improve German.