Mannheim '75
A production by machina eX
for the X-Apartments project
as part of the 16th Schiller Days,
Nationaltheater Mannheim
concept, implementation, equipment
Anan Fries,
Yves Regenass,
Laura Alisa Schäffer
performance
Anan Fries,
Kim Kannler,
Yves Regenass,
Laura Alisa Schäffer
cooperation
Jan Philip Steimel
production management
Laura Alisa Schäffer
photos
Christian Kleiner
Mannheim, 1975: The Federal Garden Show is just around the corner. Exotic plants are being brought to Mannheim from everywhere, a suspended cable car is being built exclusively for the event, and the whole city is lost in green exoticism. The whole city? No, because a lonely idealist is fighting against the madness of capitalizing on the environment, against exoticism in the greenhouse, and is fighting for the ignored native green plants: In the party cellar of his house, he is making plans for the biggest act of eco-terrorism that Mannheim has ever seen. But he has been tracked down: the young policewoman Erika is trying to investigate undercover and save the flower terrorist from a violent attack. Between LSD trips, German hits, herbal schnapps, and flower fertilizer, the players decide whose side they are on and how the story ends.
June 4–7, 2011
Private apartment in Neckarstadt-Ost, Mannheim, Germany