All they really wanted to do was perform: Two siblings tell the story of a family that has withdrawn into their home, intimidated by an outside world that has turned into a threat. Their resources are ... Read more
All they really wanted to do was perform: Two siblings tell the story of a family that has withdrawn into their home, intimidated by an outside world that has turned into a threat. Their resources are limited, their questions enormous. This lack, however, leads to their urgency: they’re not performing to distract themselves, they’re doing it to survive. On their search for the truth, they get dangerously close to each other, while they switch roles and timelines fall into one another, the performance is their final attempt to claw back a shared reality – or at least to prove that it exists. They fail because of the world, their parents, the past and each other – and yet they, in this very failure, keep one another alive.
This play tells of cohesion and exhaustion, of resistance and escape, of people who support each other and at the same time stand in each other’s way. It’s not about succeeding, rather about whether or not we try. And about who dares to be the first to let go. Jonas Dassler and Aysima Ergün oscillate between absurd situational comedy and the requisite self-criticism. Die Allerletzten (The Very Last Ones) asks what we do when nothing is certain anymore: retreat or head out, hold tight or let go. The audience becomes the witness to a performance that refuses to deliver clear answers.
World Premiere 28/November 2025
Part of 7th Berliner Herbstsalon ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE
