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The transformation forms the foundation of all theater art. Without masks and changes of shape, without speaking puppets in the scenic magic circle, there is no transformation. This characteristic is shared by water, the building block of life, with existence on stage. Like no other substance, this element can take on countless states of matter, today wave, tomorrow cloud, and the day after tomorrow drop, icicle, or snowflake. Instantly, global warming gives this acrobatic quality additional momentum. Mere centimeters high streams mutate into raging torrents within hours, washing cars through towns; heavy rainfall floods subway shafts and renders urban transportation systems inoperable in a short time, while the Arctic ice shields splinter, and the rising sea level seemingly threatens entire island groups with extinction relentlessly.
With acting, dance, music, video, puppets, experts, and seasoned water enthusiasts, the ensemble of the Theater of the Anthropocene, along with RambaZamba actress Shirly Klengel, embarks on a wild journey into the wonderland of the metamorphoses of water. An expedition that asks what its changeability and tendency to change form mean for the near future. How can we shape our relationship with this liquid substance, what approach is advisable so that our way of existence does not go down the drain? Does this substance, whose presence has so far seemed so self-evident, still hold undiscovered potentials? What does it mean, for example, that the water of the oceans has a mineral composition that corresponds to that of our body fluids? What does the beauty of the water lilies tell us? Why do some creatures of the deep sea glow, even though not a single ray of light penetrates there?
The piece is being created as part of the collaboration between RZt and the Theater of the Anthropocene and the project AnthropoScenes, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the State of Berlin as part of the excellence strategy of the federal and state governments through the Berlin University Alliance.

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