The Earth "has little people" - and because they behave idiotically and thoughtlessly, she is sentenced to destruction by the cosmic court. The comet Konrad is tasked with colliding with the aimless planet. Only the scholar Professor Guck recognizes the dimension of the impending danger and tries to awaken his contemporaries in order to avert the looming catastrophe.
But he encounters arrogance and ignorance everywhere: politicians who expand their power, speculators who increase their profits, and journalists who want to enlarge their reach; along with an amusement-happy global population that does not want to acknowledge all the insights and simply wants to forget all the complicated connections cheerfully.
Guck's adventures in trying to save a reluctant world are so humorous, absurd, and insightful that our present poses the great question about the future of humanity anew - with a laughter that stands up to all despair. And who knows, maybe it will still be possible just before the apocalypse to divert Konrad from his fatal flight path …
Wise, satirical, and always profoundly human - this is how the Austrian writer Jura Soyfer appeared, who was born in 1912 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and died in the German concentration camp Buchenwald in 1939. For the legendary Viennese cabaret "ABC," he wrote the prophetic one-act play "Weltuntergang" in 1936 - which is now presented here with a lot of music in a coffee house that means the world.
Direction Georg Büttel Stage Thomas Bruner Costumes Sanna Dembowski Musical Direction Andreas Lenz von Ungern-Sternberg Light Hans-Peter Boden Video/Sound Martin Hermann Makeup Katinka Wischnewski
With Michele Cuciuffo, Paul Kaiser, Gerd Lohmeyer, Hubert Schedlbauer, Nathalie Schott, Dascha von Waberer, Mara Widmann
Admission Prices
€ 20 | € 25
Reduced € 15 | € 20
Junior reduced € 10 | € 15 (for students, trainees, and apprentices up to the age of 27)
Production and Organizer: GbR Schöfl et al. "Weltuntergang"
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