Marat, was ist aus unserer Revolution geworden?

This isn’t about empathy or having a few Euros more in your pocket. It’s about how people live, people who are just a few metres away on stage, people who are real and not just images on tv. They vent their anger, they shout and whisper about their ever increasing frustration at being rejected for jobs and rising food costs. Together they have the power of a chorus but they are not a mass – each individual has his or her own face. It’s rare to see bodies, faces, voices on stage with such concentrated energy as this chorus of Hartz IV recipients. That they also read out a list of the richest people in Hamburg which has already been published in Manager magazine became one of the talking points of the theatre season. Staying close to the main theme of their original, Peter Weiss’s “Marat/Sade” play, Volker Lösch and dramaturg Beate Seidel produce considered while retaining a sense of self-irony.