When things start going down the toilet, a family hires a Jessica to clean up.

Actors: Robert Beyer, Jenny König, Sebastian Schwarz, Marie Burchard; Photo: Arno Declair

Stück Plastik (A Piece of Plastic) is the Schaubühne state theatre’s latest excuse to break the fourth wall with food.

Nothing goes unmocked in this play. If you’re a character who’s lost all creativity and sensibility, you get spaghetti thrown at you. If you’re a character who thinks you haven’t lost it, you get spaghetti thrown at you. If you’re not a character and have paid 30 euros to sit in the first row, you get spaghetti thrown at you.

I think I’d go to see this play for the spaghetti-slinging alone, but that’s not why I came home raving about it. Continue reading “Plastic is the New Poo: Berlin Theatre gets its Hands Dirty”