A crazy desire for comfort

On the beach, two children play “mommy and daddy”: siblings Felix and Charlotte invented this ritual to remember their deceased parents, to express their sadness and longing for love and comfort.

In the first part of Thorsten Lensing's production Crazy Desire for Comfort, the children use their unbridled imagination to dispel their sadness over the loss of their parents, at least for a moment. Over the course of the evening, the audience accompanies the siblings through several decades and experiences comical, surreal, and touching episodes with them. It is about nothing less than life in the face of death, the fear of not finding one's way, and the great desire to feel truly alive.

Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi, and Devid Striesow transform themselves into hungry babies, grieving children, talking octopuses, divers longing for death, people who cannot feel their own bodies, cows on the day of slaughter, robot caregivers, and dying people waiting for death in a retirement home.