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What a strange present, in which fossils compressed into liquid over millions of years are burned as refined fuel, for example in a motorcycle, and the resulting acceleration into the sunset means freedom for some. This promise of happiness must have something to do with repression, otherwise how could one endure joy that is so obviously based on death?



Wonderwomb by Amir Gudarzi is a piece about the present's entanglement with oil:
it is about dead animals as well as the dead in the wars fought for oil. About the turbulence of Iranian history with a racist policeman in Vienna, with Nordstream 2, with a speculator on the stock exchange who bets on oil prices.

The text is an attempt at nothing less than the entire global context, a dramatic design to give form to complexity that does not lose hope despite all the excessive demands.


Theresa Thomasberger, who made her debut at the Deutsches Theater Berlin last season with Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies, is now once again devoting herself to a multi-perspective text and dissecting the uncanny potential of petroleum, a familiar and natural everyday companion.


For Wonderwomb, Amir Gudarzi received the 2022 Kleist Prize for Young Drama, and for the production in the Box of the Deutsches Theater he updated the text with a new extension.



(PLAY IN GERMAN)

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Participating artists
Amir Gudarzi (Autor/in)
Theresa Thomasberger
Daria von Loewenich
Caner Sunar
Jens Koch
Svenja Liesau
Dates
March 2025
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