Ode to Joy is about the process of writing the future as a series of possible scenarios, the failure of the present to deal with reality, and the necessity of fiction to retell the past. In the beginning, we thought we were writing a play about the Palestinian revolution. Yet, with time it deviated and became a play about the 1972 Munich attack. Later, a bed was introduced and became the subject of the play. We do not know where this bed is going, but we do know its fate: death by explosion.

Performance in Arabic and video in German and English with Arabic subtitles, 65’, 2015

Ode to Joy is a Münchner Kammerspiele production.

Photo: Ode to Joy, Münchner Kammerspiele 2015, courtesy of Judith Buss.