Theater der Peinlichkeit
Visiting my parents, my mother asks how I am, I don’t know what to respond. She runs a gym that is not working out.
She asks: «Would you play in an ad for me, disguised as your weaker self?» I say yes and find myself standing on the marketplace in a weaker-self-costume. Anything is better than to speak about myself. Anything is easier than a conversation.
Embarrasing moments are honest moments. They are weak moments which do not fulfill what society expects from us. But we are all just weird loners with strange preferences who should feel connected to each other much more often. After all, what does it mean anyway: embarrasing?
«Theater der Peinlichkeit», theatre of the embarrasment wants to be moving – when we would save ourselves into laughter or turn away. It leads us to ourselves and to others, to a moment in which we see beauty in shame und honestly feel joy. After his successful work «Neue Männlichkeit» that was produced in collaboration with «neue Dringlichkeit», Stephan Stock is finally back at the Gessnerallee with his «Theater der Peinlichkeit».
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