Dancing Idiots

Description

**Lardi plays Goldie**
Goldie does what she loves most: she remodels her house. Her joy in doing so is as contagious as it is disturbing. The great Bündner actress Ursina Lardi plays Goldie with impressive fire and brings Goldie's indomitable vitality to light. And at the same time, it is clearly visible: Goldie is seriously ill. Her mind gives its best, but her body gives up. The woman knows she is dying and yet passionately plans a future she no longer has. Her tomcat Apollo, played by Sebastian Blomberg, seems to enjoy Goldie's increasing weakness: finally, he can lie undisturbed on her and snore endlessly. In return, Goldie can tell him things she reveals to no one else. Suddenly, there is a knock, and Goldie's newly in love father (André Jung) stands at the door with his lover (Karin Neuhäuser). The two are on their way to the sea with their motorhome and pay Goldie a spontaneous surprise visit. Completely unexpectedly, the father, almost bursting with happiness, finds himself at the deathbed of his own daughter. In Goldie's life, the whole world floods in once again through the stories of the old: all that makes parting so hard: forests, animals, adventures, passion, and the sea. In the second part of the evening, Goldie's dying is told poetically. The living space Earth is left behind, Goldie and her companions seemingly dance weightlessly through space. **Brutal, tender, anarchic**
In "Dancing Idiots," Ursina Lardi, Karin Neuhäuser, Sebastian Blomberg, Benjamin Eggers-Domsky, André Jung, and drummer Willi Keller play survivors of everyday life and aging. What defines them is a crazy mix of brutality and tenderness, anarchy and metaphysical instincts, existential pain and zest for life. The German theater maker Thorsten Lensing wrote the text for "Dancing Idiots" for his ensemble, inspired by a story by the American Denis Johnson. In works like "Crazy for Comfort," the Chur audience has already experienced how Lardi, Jung, Blomberg, and other allies reconstruct and celebrate the joint play live every evening anew. Denis Johnson is one of the most important contemporary American authors and is highly regarded by colleagues such as Jonathan Franzen, Philip Roth, and David Foster Wallace for his "goosebump-inducing," "unpretentiously direct," and "brutally comic" prose. About himself and his work, he says: "I would describe my characters just like myself: We are dancing idiots."

Highlights

• Play by Thorsten Lensing
• Ursina Lardi plays the lead role Goldie
• Poetic narration about life and dying

General Information

The play "Dancing Idiots" is performed at Theater Chur and deals with the last days of Goldie, who is full of joy despite her illness. The production combines emotional depth with poetic elements and offers an impressive view of farewell and memories.

Location

Theaterplatz, 7000 Chur, Switzerland

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