status quo
status quo
status quo
status quo
status quo
status quo
status quo

status quo

Délka
125 min
Režie
Marius von Mayenburg
Premiéra
18.1.2019
Autor
Maja Zade
Hrají

Jule Böwe, Marie Burhard, Moritz Gottwald, Jenny König, Lukas Turtur

Times are hard for men – especially for handsome young men called Florian who are looking for a job. At the estate agents, Florian is subjected to his female colleagues’ constant invasion of his personal space; at the chemist’s shop Florian suffers sexual assaults at the hands of the female branch manager; in the theatre Florian is met by the artistic-sexual interest of the female artistic director. In a society where women call all the shots, every Florian becomes a Flo.

status quo shows the world as it is, except in mirror image. Women are in charge. The objects of desire and discrimination – at work and in the domestic sphere – are the men. This inversion of real-life circumstances allows the mechanisms of inequality to become clearly exposed in a satire that is as biting as it is funny. The tales of woe from the three Flos make visible the absurdity of the imbalance of power that has become so habitual we regard it as normal.

Maja Zade is a writer, translator and dramaturg at the Schaubühne. She has a long history of collaboration with Marius von Mayenburg. This is the first time one of her plays is being staged at the Schaubühne.

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