Benvolio + Mercutio
In German with Catalan subtitles
You’re my favourite place in all the world, babe!
B & M are two beautiful young men that are very fond of each other. Although they have long since forgotten the world, occasionally they are drawn into the already perversely long-lasting blood feud between the Montecchi and Capuleti. When the sky over your sky is threatening to collapse, the only sanctuary is your baby. Because people can also be places, according to Benvolio.
I’m a slut and sluts do slutty stuff, but I love you, no homo. You are the most beautiful man in the world, says M, crying with emotion. His tears run down Benvolio’s hands, then down his arms and finally into his armpits.
B & M kiss with eyes open. They embrace with eyes open. And when they look over each other’s shoulders from their cloying embrace, they’re still afraid. For they’re both covered in little flakes of crumbling sky, which melts and soaks through their skin, deep into their bodies. Soon they’re knee-deep in the muddy sky.
Text and director: Zelal Yesilyurt
Dramaturgy: Charlotte Brandhorst
Translation of the subtitles: Max Grosse Majench
Cast: Leander Dörr, Ben Engelgeer, Elias Geißler, Milan Herms, Emil Heusinger, Luis Huayna, Annh Kiet Le, Luis Krummenacher, Finn Michelis, Pepe Röpnack, Caspar Unterweger and Julian Winterstein
Stage design: Fanni Rau
Costumes: Selma Schulte-Frohlinde and Zelal Yesilyurt
Makeup: Zelal Yesilyurt
Live camera: Isi Thiele and Nimo Wöginger
Video editing: Gabi Bertin and Vanessa Unzalu Troya
Video: Lilli Naß
Technical director: Leander Hagen
P14 director: Vanessa Unzalu Troya
This production premiered at the Volksbühne Berlin on 7th February 2019.