Warten auf Tränengas

In the organizer's words:

"Colorful, wild, everything always in motion." Deutschlandfunk

"[The] director cleverly keeps the locations and the audience on the move during this complex journey." Die Deutsche Bühne

"The audience become followers." nd

"The absolute closeness and the immediate play of the ensemble of only six in this revolutionary chamber play create the pull of the story." Theater today

Is this what a revolution looks like? The atmosphere is electrifying. All sorts of people are talking about all sorts of things: Wild boar sausage and non-alcoholic beer, grievances in the current government and ambitious plans for the future. When the babble of voices dies down, one person in particular is worried: the president. Because more and more people are gathering in front of the government building. They are not shouting slogans or waving homemade signs. Then things suddenly happen very quickly, a stone flies and the situation escalates. A new president comes to the fore. She stands for all the right things - social, ecological, democratic change - but can that work? In the intoxicating maelstrom of events, characters emerge from the plot who take on the fate of their world with surprising clarity. "Waiting for Tear Gas" is a precise, unsparing play. It outlines a seductive change of power and poses important fundamental questions: How do we want to live together? When is it time to stand up for a just world? And who actually decides?
Mareike Mikat stages the text as a confrontation with the audience, dispensing with the classic instruments of theater. The text is addressed immersively and directly to the audience. As a mobile production, it changes its venues across Halle, and the new theater can be experienced backstage at the start.