What does a theater look like that takes the local and global relationships of all living beings seriously? "Der Messingkauf im Curazän" ties in with Bertolt Brecht's fragmentary classic "Der Messingkauf" and questions the social role of theater in dark times. The Curazän—an imagined contemporary epoch of "cura," or care for and from all forms of life—forms the conceptual framework for a new theatrical practice beyond the Anthropocene.
Together with theater makers, philosophers, lawyers, journalists, and activists, Teresa Kovacs and Kevin Rittberger are developing new perspectives for a regenerative theater that can address ecological crises as well as the rise of fascism. Polylogues and prose pieces form a practical theater theory for the 21st century—between ecological reorientation and the courage to make radical new beginnings.
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