A pile of shit (alternative german title: Ein Intendantenwechsel) is an unpublished drama by an unknown author. It is assigned to the antics and junk literature. It is about the director's dispute at the Volksbühne in 2017. It only takes place there and at the Platz.
Language and style
The language is bad and the style is half-baked. The text was not discussed by anyone and only criticized, which has earned it a certain cult status among theater studies students at GenZ. It is recommended to read the text after some excessive round of binge-drinking.[1]
Plot
In and of itself it's really just about Frank Castorf and Chris Dercon. Everything else are just random accessoires, such as the mass. And the eponymous pile.
Characters:
- a regent
- his fellowship
- some princes
- another regent from the neighboring kingdom
- a State Secretary
- his successor
- a museum director, successor to the regent
- the press
- the common people / the mass
- a group of anarchists
Summary of Events
Place of action: A court in the middle of a German city and the immediate vicinity.
Prologue
The press speaks of a 25-year reign in which an angry rebel created a radiant court from a landscape of ruins, which initially included angry, then successful princes and whose following grew steadily, which silenced all adversaries.
1st Act
We learn of the deposition of the regent within two years, which is announced by the press (1st scene). Thereupon there are isolated outcry among the general people (2nd scene) before his followers and then the regent himself appear and express displeasure with the decree, which leads to tumult in the general people (3rd scene). When the State Secretary meets the successor he has appointed at a secret location, a loud scream from the off announces the removal of the regent from the neighboring kingdom, whereupon the terrified museum director announces his escape abroad (scene 4).
2nd Act
The deposed regent of the neighboring empire presents himself to the press with a speech in which he takes sides for his former adversary and calls for a witch hunt against the State Secretary (1st scene). Carried away by the vigor, the press kindles a storm in which a tornado suddenly turns into a pile of shit that will float in the air for the rest of the act, the princes fuel the storm with loud slogans that echo the general people like an echo reproduces (2nd scene). The state secretary, who is now in a bad state of health, visits the ruling regent during a lavish party and demands apology, which he is refused, whereupon his supporters chase the state secretary from the court and all gates are locked from the inside (3rd scene). In front of the gates, the State Secretary collapses in the arms of the returned museum director, who as a result is able to flee from the general public to an adjoining hiding place just in time.
3rd act
At the court, the outgoing regent has become friends with the successor of the State Secretary, together they discuss the possibilities of dissolving the issued decision, while a group of anarchists, who have passed away from the general people, arrive for an audience at the court, however, discussing their concerns keep covered (1st scene). A prince appears in front of the press during the ongoing festival at court and ensures that the storm from the 2nd act is rekindled. When leaving his hiding place, the museum director barely escapes the pile of shit, which, according to him, is thrown into the air every day by an upcoming storm and then lands back on the ground in front of the hiding place (2nd scene). The group of anarchists arm themselves with some shit ammunition and more or less accidentally hits the general public while aiming at the hiding place of the museum director. A verbal battle ensues between representatives of the general people and the anarchists, which from now on will flare up again and again between the rest of the events (3rd scene). Completely stunned by the general feeling of intoxication that prevails at the court and in front of its gates, the deposed regent steps in front of the masses on the last day of his rule and blows himself up with the emblem of his court in front of everyone present, while his supporters and the new state secretary do so Cheer on the event (4th scene).
4th Act
A few weeks later. We learn from the press that the neighboring regent is also different in the meantime and from the museum director,
References
- ↑ Quod erat demonstrandum
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