Alexander Eisenach’s commissioned work, which belongs to the science fiction genre, provides little reason to be cheerful.
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Science fiction in the Frankfurter Kammerspiele: A stage scene from “Eternal Peace”.
(Photo: Jessica Schäfer)
FRANKFURT – The year is 2114. Humanity, or what is left of it, has withdrawn to distant Greenland. Here is a new paradise, an “island of bliss” after unimagined natural resources were uncovered by the melting of the ice as a result of climate change. But people have changed too. The overexploitation and exploitation of nature are no longer planned; the self-appointed rulers over other life have integrated themselves.
The audience at the Frankfurter Kammerspiele cannot simply sit back and relax during this instructive lesson, disguised as a vision of the future, entitled “Eternal Peace”, which celebrated its live premiere at the weekend after film samples online. Right from the start it is insulted from the stage. “You consider yourself to be the one who knows, but you are the one who knows,” it says with a malicious undertone from the ranks of the six actors who sit on white chairs in the foreground. It is held against you that you are lonely and keep your distance, because you only follow the Corona rules. And later that everyone in the auditorium had lousy faces, so many hadn’t been seen for a long time.
Alexander Eisenach’s 80-minute piece development, belonging to the science fiction genre, also provides little reason to be cheerful. A careful evaluation, which the researcher Brandt (Sebastian Kuschmann) has to place himself in a planetary bluish shimmering circle designed by Daniel Wollenzin behind a gauze-like curtain, shows that dreams wherever humanity develops, something abnormal and nostalgia a mental dynamic blockage is.