At the boarder

This highly topical play is set on the border between two undefined states. The same language is spoken, habits and living conditions hardly differ. Yuan and Mati are deployed here, picking each other up, chatting amicably, eating and singing together. At the same time, they have to react to the political developments in their countries, which escalate from 'friendly relations' to 'border incidents' and even declarations of war. Will Mati and Yuan break down the borders?

The play illustrates the effects of borders and the need to defend them to the death using the example of two ordinary soldiers.

They become pawns of their governments, which, in their hardening, do not look for solutions but for confrontation with seemingly no alternative.Turkish author Muzaffer Izgü, who died in 2017, focuses on two men who are not resistance fighters, who do not exchange in-depth analyses of political systems, and who are not nationalists - but people who, like Yuan, long for their loved ones, or who rave about the cherries they can pick at home, like Mati.Both men show how human interaction works, without prejudice, with humor and affection, and how it could be if it weren't for a political level that pursues completely different interests.

(PLAY IN GERMAN)