Blind Variation #3

by machina eX,
Commissioned production by the Nationaltheater Mannheim
in coproduction with machina eX and Zeitraumexit eV
as part of the 17th International Schiller Days

From

Anan Fries,
Yves Regenass,
Laura Schäffer,
Philip Steimel
(machina eX)

text

Olivia Wenzel

performance

Janina Schröder,
Florian Stamm,
Dominik Weber

sound

Malu Peeters

stage and costume

Anan Fries,
Marie Luise Schlegelmilch

production

Laura Schäffer

Technical Management

Philip Steimel

acting direction

Anan Fries,
Yves Regenass

photos

Christian Kleiner

Have you been wondering what light nutrition is all about? Do you suddenly miss your parents from time to time? Do you love photos more than anything? Do you have a laugh that doesn't contaminate anyone?

In BLIND VARIATION #3 we set out to search for the truth. The starting point is Schiller's ballad The Veiled Image of Sais, which combines the ancient topos of the same name of the veiled truth with the search of a young man thirsting for knowledge.

Because: "It is only one for all, yet everyone sees it differently; That it remains one makes the different true." (Friedrich Schiller)

In small groups, the audience plays their way through the evening and solves puzzles to figure out the story. Three life plans become three sides of a coin, three truth seekers grab the audience by three hands. Three spaces grow together, three utopias collide and a veil remains a veil.