Roland Schimmelpfennig

A man has an accident with his lorry. He leaves the load lying in a ditch by the side of the road and sets off on his way to a better life. segue ...

The play centres around The Golden Dragon, a Chinese-Vietnamese-Thai restaurant that does a good trade selling local residents its Asian fast food to take away as well.
It is here, between hissing gas cookers in the cramped kitchen, that a young Chinese man without a residence permit has an incisor that is tormenting him pulled out with a wrench. This tooth accidentally lands in the Thai soup, in which it finds its way into the mouth of a stewardess, one of the restaurant’s regulars. segue ...

A wedding party out in the open air on a summer evening. It is late and still warm. Some of the guests have musical instruments with them. Now and then, they play a couple of bars of a melody. There is a great deal of eating and drinking. A woman talks into a pram. segue ...

“The packing is done. A family is moving house. Frank, the father, will be working overseas and Claudia, his wife, is going with him as a matter of course. Their almost grown up son Andreas will also relocate with them and, like his parents, is leaving his previous life in the old world behind. He now has to part from Tina, his first great love.segue ...

In „Prima/Dopo“ vengono offerte allo sguardo in 51 brevi scene frammenti di vita di svariati personaggi sommariamente descritti, che per caso soggiornano contemporaneamente in un grande albergo. segue ...

Estate: per un guasto alle tubature manca l’acqua in un intero grattacielo di appartamenti. Solo in un appartamento al settimo piano una giovane donna, Franziska, si fa la doccia. segue ...

They are in a hurry to become top managers, exert influence at executive meetings, or get important postings abroad, or their working lives are close to disaster: being fired, shunted to the sidelines, or made to retire early. The women and men in "Push Up 1-3" work in a big company's administration, the scene of three big struggles for power, each waged by two people competing mercilessly for business and private interests. segue ...

A man on a bicycle cycles pointlessly in large circles around the stage until he crashes into a wall. A woman in a rococo dress flits indecisively across the set. A young woman struggles with a heavy suitcase. A couple exchange meaningless melancholic remarks about bicycles, suitcases and women, a woman with a broom, a pair of lovers.segue ...