Luk Perceval

Traum im Herbst shows the life of Man in some seemingly arbitrary fragments. The clock is ticking ceaselessly which explains why MAN is brooding over death, lost opportunities, unfulfilled desires and about his fears. Our life is not pushed forward by our identity, but by our relationships. No other art form but theatre is able to show this social game in the best way.

In the trenches, soldiers are locked in endless fighting: they move some kilometres forward only to return back to their former position in a deadly cycle. Elsewhere, a woman returns to a house she has once known and finds it now poised at the edge of an abyss. Wanting to leave, she encounters inexplicable obstacles. Chaya Czernowin’s harrowingly sublime work Infinite Now interweaves two seemingly unconnected storylines - Luk Perceval’s play FRONT based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All quiet on the Western front and Can Xue’s novella Homecoming - that both speak to the human condition of entrapment and existential nakedness, and beyond that to a will to survive.