The whole country is a construction site. The tax office is no exception: power outages, malfunctioning computers, stuck elevators - truly not optimal conditions for the finance team to efficiently do their job and catch the major and minor scams of the taxpayers.

Moreover, the daily frustrations with bureaucracy, incorrectly filled out forms, and angry threat letters from taxpayers take their toll on the colleagues, who are also not entirely free from vanity and power calculus.

While useful mesalliances are being forged and loopholes for one’s own tax declaration are being discussed, the colleague who was overlooked for promotion suddenly uncovers an enormously significant Cum-Ex tax fraud...

Witty and with deep black humor, the word artist Felicia Zeller paints the picture of an authority striving for justice, but ultimately powerless, whose lovable quirky employees, despite - mostly - the best intentions, must fail due to the systemic conditions - not least because they are also part of the system “Everyone does what they can”.

In the end, however, it is clear: This is not how it works. Nowhere. But thankfully, OH LORD! - one can still always start singing a gospel...

Direction Alexander Weise Stage Thomas Flach Costumes Cornelia Petz Choreography David Williams Dramaturgy Katharina Schöfl Music Michael Zlanabitnig Choir Arrangement and Musical Preparation Christoph Weber Light Hans-Peter Boden Sound/Technical Direction Martin Hermann Makeup Katinka Wischnewski Stage Painting Mark Reindl

With Anna Graenzer, Sebastian Griegel, Sebastian Kempf, Nikola Norgauer, Sophie Rogall, Thomas Schweiberer, Luca Skupin, Jakob Tügel, Bijan Zamani