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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION Three characters grow up in a big European city: they are privileged, well-educated, bored. Whiling away their time with children’s games, they discover the pleasure of the forbidden. They lose themselves in ecstatic states which, however, soon begin to wear thin. The wish for something "real” to happen grows stronger every day. They seek refuge in the intimacy of their close community, which becomes a cage with no way out. The Western project of self-determination has become insecure, even paranoid. What may initially appear paradoxical is remarkable nevertheless: the difference between active self-destroyers and their explosive vests and these passive self-destroyers with their professed hedonism is not as great as they might like it to be. In their latest devised play, Ersan Mondtag and the young Berlin-based author Olga Bach outline the topography of an end time and the fears that go along with it, currently taking hold of the Western world like an epidemic. THE AUTHOR OLGA BACH, born in Berlin in 1990, became involved, together with Ersan Mondtag, in the Grips Theater Berlin’s youth theatre group while she was still at school (2004-2007). Together, they founded the independent theatre group "PE-Ensemble”. In 2007, her first devised play, Vincent, was premiered at the German-Turkish theatre Tiyatrom in Berlin-Kreuzberg and at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. After several internships (at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and Deutsches Theater Berlin, among others), she interned at the Max-Planck-lnstitute in Jinka, Southern Ethiopia, where she created the short documentary film Hamar. From 2010 to 2014, she studied Philosophy and German philology at Freie Universität Berlin and Istanbul Üniversitesi in Turkey. In 2014, she obtained the degree of “Bachelor of Arts”. In 2013, she was the lead dramaturge for the durational performance m/KONKORDIA at the "Schaustelle (Show Site)” of Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, directed by Ersan Mondtag. She has been studying law at Berlin’s Humboldt-Universität since 2014, Since 2016, she has been a legal advisor at the HU Berlin's Refugee Law Clinic.

•Please find Ersan Mond tag’s biography on page 48