WAISEN

Suddenly, Liam appears in the doorway, covered in blood. He says a man had been mugged outside. Liam says he just wanted to help him, but then the man ran away. Helen, Liam’s sister, and her husband Danny had actually planned to spend a romantic evening together. But now the street is invading their home. Danny wants to call the police. Helen, who has been a sort of surrogate mother to Liam since their parents’ early death, stops him. But why?

With cool detachment and brevity, Dennis Kelly brings the middle-class world as we know it crashing down. “Brick by brick, Liam’s web of lies is torn down, but in this painful process of uncovering the truth, everyone involved becomes increasingly entangled in shared guilt. With cruel relish, Kelly tightens the screw until the story takes its worst possible turn...

What remains: a shattered marriage, a shattered family, and a shattered man. And a razor-sharp thriller about the breakdown of social solidarity and the return of group morality.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

“Orphans” is “less a crime thriller than an exploration of the fears and loyalties that lead us to do what we shouldn’t. As well as a painful examination of how easily our fundamental moral values can be corrupted.” (The Guardian)

This play is gripping right up to the very last line; at times the audience holds its breath, while at other times the text’s sarcasm elicits astonished laughter from the crowd.

Cast: Inga Stück, Furkan Arslan, Philine Conrad

Director: Ali Jalaly
Assistant Director: Sara Sayadi
Set Design: Sina Feyz
Office Management and Publicity: Raika Jalaly

Additional Performances: Sept. 1, Sept. 2, Sept. 6, Sept. 13, Sept. 20—all at 8:00 p.m. 

Horizont Theater, Thürmchenswall 25 | 50668 Cologne | Tel.: 0221 / 13 16 04
Ali Jalaly Ensemble, nc-koushkal@netcologne.de Tel.: 01781840107