Do you already know how we will think
Do you already know how we will understand
How we will laugh about what will happen tomorrow
And do you remember how it will not be after all
Everything here is like it always is… Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen
Siggi Leupold spent the first 49 years of his life in Berlin, played the trombone, and watched the goings-on at the intersection of Danziger Strasse and Schönhauser Allee in Berlin. Sometimes he drank beer with his friends and was happy – until one of his friends, actually a stranger who he had gotten to know at the Konnopke’s sausage stand, asked him the following question just before his 50th birthday: “Do you already know how wonderful things will be?” And Siggi answered: “No, I don’t. But I would like to know.” After which he spontaneously got on the next tram feeling happy and high-spirited – and full of ideas for his next trombone solo.
Director Milan Peschel, the RambaZamba Ensemble, and the band Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen (Eight Buckets of Chicken Hearts) utilize music to explore a topic that occupies all of the actors and actresses at our theater: inclusion. They ask themselves the following questions: What is the meaning of life for actors and actresses with disabilities? How do they define happiness? And what exactly is the relationship all of us have to the past and future? Why do so many things from the (former) East (Berlin) no longer have a place in our society? Is one’s own identity not closely connected to memories of childhood? In a city in which memories are constantly disappearing, individuals philosophize together about life and its meaning – at night, when things get quiet. Here, it’s all about possibilities and the benefits of conforming, the advantages of being slow, and the things that are truly important.