Helena oder Stay safe and sorry
Selma Kay Matter Premiere 31. October 2024
Direction Alina Fluck Stage and costume Klara Schur, Marleen Johow Dramaturgy Julia Fiebag The cast Clara Kroneck, Artur Spannagel, Christian Bo Salle Photos Birgit Hupfeld
Now that Helena has cancelled her trip with lover Paris, everything could be fine again. But "there is guilt everywhere": in the relationship between Helena and Menelaus, in the ecological and economic system, in her own lifestyle. Helena's encounter with a sperm whale turns all boundaries into fiction - including those between species: lobsters cry out for her, raccoons occupy her attic and mourn the dead. Helena decides to become a raccoon, to free herself from anthropocentrism and be in harmony with nature. While she strives for the dissolution of man, Menelaos looks for a way to fight nature and picks up a gun. Selma Kay Matter has written a humorous play about climate guilt, the end of humanity and desperate actionism.