DE

LONGJOHN

Being a man - is not easy

A Western-Parody with comedy, musics, dance, artistics, improvisation - let's call it freestyle theatre!

Imagine: At home after a long hard working day. Still some homework to do. While hoovering, you transform into a Western hero and become one of those admired guys featured in Western movies of your childhood. ... This happens to Frank, who then let the audience participate who it feels to walk through creaking saloon doors with a grim look, to ride the prairie, to beat each other, or to sit around the campfire with Alison, Johnston, and Slicky, and to dig in deeply into philisophy with the movie voices of famous western heroes. LONGJOHN focuses on being a man and brutally examines the attributes that we assign to this role in our society today, pure archetypes, stereotypes at its best. Both and nothing of both.

Both and none of both. The basis for this is the genre of the Western, which has numerous clichés. The Western, symbol of the game with the border between nature and civilization, describes a time in which the man could still be a man, was allowed and had to. LONGJOHN plays on many levels with and in border areas. Thus, the actors are limited by playback voices from Western movies in their expressive possibilities. Several films were spotted, excerpts compiled and digitally made available. Together, acting and soundtrack turn the stage into a movie screen.

A play for everyone, because: Men love cowboys - and women love men.

Longjohn is created by the ensemble Der Weisse Knopf (Cologne, Germany). The four tough guys on stage are directed - by a lady director.
Actually, this play only is available in German language.