Spiel Zigeunistan
Monolog / Klassenzimmerstück
Christians Richers: Play Gypsynia
Classroom play for 1m; for age of 14+; WP: Thalia Theater Hamburg (Gaußstraße), 29/01/2014 (directed by Anton Kurt Krause)
Wolkly (Cloudly) skips school. He's had enough, he won't go anymore! He tries but he just can't do it. As soon as he only enters school, his head turns empty. Wolkly plays Brahms by heart but even in music class he fails.
School, he learnt from early on, that's nothing for a Sinti. Most of his numerous relatives are dropouts. In consequence of course they are profiteers and cheaters, clever dealers, with music in their blood, nomads who don't want to get settled anywhere... In Wolkly's passport the name Thomas is written. His family has lived in the same part of Hamburg for generations. But for everyone he is a Sinti, a nomad, not a German. How can a boy find his way then, who doesn't belong to the majority, whose minority though makes a virtue out of their necessity and remains in traditional structures. Structures that at least restrict Wolkly as well as they give him the only security he knows. Wolkly dreams of being free - free of the trauma of national socialism by which his family is still characterised, free from German obligations on one hand and of the supervision of his clan on the other. How would his world, his Gypsynia, look like, if he could choose? His uncle Letscho, who goes looking for him, tells a different story. He doesn't want to break out, he rather wants to take care, that the adolescents in the neighbourhood graduate school so they finally get the same chances in Germany.
The biographic-fictional stage play about Wolkly and Letscho is based on conversations with members of the family Weiss who live in Hamburg. Christiane Richers quotes clichés and stereotypes in her play without serving or undermining them. She lets her characters look for identity without concealing what identity always means as well: a rigid procedure of inclusion and exclusion. In the end Wolkly sits at the river Elbe beneath a highway bridge and plays guitar, all by himself on the edge of his way - maybe he's about to play "Miro djipen": "My Way".
Besetzung: 1 Herr(en)
Alter: empfohlen ab 14
Uraufführung: Thalia Theater Hamburg, 29.01.2014, Regie: Anton Kurt Krause