Im Dorf

“With their believable interplay between euphoria, lightness, sorrow and perseverance, Leistikow and Kiki create an intense atmosphere. It’s also nice when they slip into other roles with the masks. Leistikow, for example, as a satisfied, jovial mayor: “Our place can’t be better.” Integrate refugee families? Yes, sure, but what are they supposed to do in rural areas? They have it better in the city. (…) The group of works shows a piece of difficult reality with their production, which is worth seeing.” Göttinger Tageblatt September 28, 2018 “Out of Göttingen, into the gently rising and falling Eichsfeld, to where dead-end villages on the western side of the GDR border and their eastern counterparts once languished in the 5-kilometer exclusion zone. Today the former death street winds its way as a pretty strip of green through the rural area. It is precisely there that the independent theater Werkgruppe2 tries to document the emotional state of the nation in a prototypical way – including mental movements and refusals. (…) This is how the integration documentary becomes the drama of a drama that trumps everyday reality, but then its laws but succumbs to love. The private fails as a political issue, in this artistically convincing detour into the provinces.” taz, October 5, 2018 “The terrible thing about reality, as reflected in “In the Village”, does not just mean prejudices, racist outbursts, different worlds of experience or the question of how a common understanding can be achieved. This evening tells so much more about a couple, that with all the obstacles that it wants and has to overcome, it is simply left alone. There is no encouragement in sight and no encouragement either. Maybe this is also a topic that comes up in the audience discussions that the work group 2 is attending would like to lead their tour through the region’s villages according to their ideas.” Göttingen Cultural Office, Tina Fibiger, September 30, 2018