A sharp-witted social comedy
Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut
A talking Cotton Fiber goes on a great adventure and provides a searing look at our global economy
“In a highly comical, breakneck fashion, Philipp Löhle illuminates the mechanisms of our globalised, technologised, rapidly changing world.”
- Deutsches Theater Berlin
Philipp Löhle's highly ambitious social comedy
"Das Ding" spans an interconnected world that binds the fates of the African Siwa, Chinese business people, Romanian pig-breeders and two young newlyweds Katrin and Thomas. As a global crisis attaches itself to the smallest marital problems on a deeply personal level, all are forced to consider whether such a thing as coincidence can exist in a globalized world. Meanwhile, the eponymous ‘thing’ – a cotton fibre in its apparently endless iterations – looks on humanity, amazed.
Philipp Löhle, born in Ravensburg in 1978, studied History, Theatre, Media and German Literature in Erlangen and Rome. Already during his studies he wrote his first plays and worked on journalistic and cinematic projects. For his drama "Genannt Gospodin" Löhle was nominated for the Mülheim Dramatists Prize 2008. Löhle was author in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, at the National Theatre Mannheim and at Mainz State Theatre.
Produced by Theatre Smash in partnership with Canadian Stage Company and in association with the Thousand Islands Playhouse.
Translated through the Goethe-Institut Translation Grant.
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