Exciting, courageous, political and always very personal: The “Radikal Jung” festival at the Munich Volkstheater shows the diversity of young directors.
“The earth has been exploited for thousands of years, now it’s us, our bodies, that are being exploited. And we’re offering it for free.” No, it won’t be an eco-drama, it will be a fantastic physical show, a choreography that doesn’t need any words (some of which are artificially voiced) because the four people on stage tell everything with their physical presence alone. “Fugue Four: Response” opens the “Radikaljung” festival in the Munich Volkstheater with a popular theme in the theater, the optimization of one’s own body, its capitalization, the dictate of functional beauty. But what Olivia Axel Scheucher and Nick Romeo Reimann came up with and brought to the stage together with Luca Bonamore and Pilar Borower is of such superior coolness and individuality that you have to think for a long time about when you have seen something comparable. With Florentina Holzinger, yes, yes. But otherwise?