Description
NUMBER OF PAGES: 18
CAST: 6 men
GENRE: absurd comedy
SYNOPSIS: The play consists of two different layers. The first layer is formed by various, often irresolvable situations of six friends and colleagues. The second layer within the play are sentences, words, syllables and speech sounds addressed without any significance or meaning. At the beginning, the colleagues give monologues about the interests they have and finally assume that their discussion is pointless. In the next scene, we move to the ticket office at the railway station and then finish at a dance school. This is followed by a kind of evaluation, but we never find out what it is that is being evaluated. The only thing we know is that a bright future awaits us. The next scene is the birthday party of a boss. Again, we never find out how old he actually is. But that is not important and a whole range of congratulations, compliments and praises takes place onstage. The happy boss tells us about an absurd dream he had. The next scene is about a woman who takes pleasure in being beautiful. The next one is about a man who goes mad but nobody believes it. Another one is about how to suffer, followed by a scene depicting an absurd phone call. The fourteenth and final scene opens with an idyll in a children’s playground. Everything is beautiful, everyone is happy, the sun is shining… Suddenly, a conflict emerges, then a fight, and the play finishes with the final monologue of a boss on the topic of children’s education and the beautiful future at hand. At the end, we find everyone in cramps, scratching their whole body. That’s the last stage of psoriasis.
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