Poor Poor Rich Rich
Thu 10.09. 18:15
Stage Art & Theatre
Further Performing Arts & Theatre
Dagrun Hintze / Sean Keller / LICHTHOF TheaterHamburg is the city and state with the most millionaires and some billionaires, while simultaneously having a very high poverty risk of 19.5% and many poor people. This simultaneity, as an expression of a global development, is the starting point for POOR POOR RICH RICH.Two authors have researched poverty and wealth in the Hanseatic city and Germany intensively and each written a play: For RICH RICH, Dagrun Hintze conducted numerous interviews with people affected by wealth, to tell about the possible connections between happiness, fortune, justice, and society. For Sean Keller, POOR POOR is about everyone: long, small, large, thin, old poor people. Working poor, homeless poor, invisible poor. And if it threatens to become too sentimental or even socially romantic, the invisible hand of the market gives it a good whack.Three performers explore the theme of "Wealth" in the first part of the evening through movement patterns that were and are practiced as social dances. The statements of rich people overlay the choreography. In between, we follow wealth researcher Rudolf Martin through Hamburg in video sequences. The second part, with ever new approaches and completely different artistic means, explores the lives of poor people and shows how poverty is systemically shaped and continues to persist.
