"... densely and bulgingly filled ..."
MAYFLY GUEST AT THE THEATER HOBBIT. She only has one day. And yet a whole life - dense and bulging. Hardly anyone lives as intensely as "Die Eintagsfliege" by "pohyb's and friends". In just under 90 minutes, Stefan Ferencz conjures up a 24-hour biography - not chronologically - on the stage, which has it all. Motherly love, learning to walk or fly (complex), departure, toward the light or the promise, searching, landing, arriving, trying, letting go, happiness and sorrow. Just the whole range of a whole life, which maybe ends with death, but doesn't really end. There's something going on... One of the poetic goosebump moments of the piece. The fact that this fly sees the stage as her vocation fits wonderfully, is a convincing metaphor and gives not only her, but also Stefan Ferencz the opportunity to express herself comprehensively, forcefully, humorously and meaningfully; without - in Slovak. That surprises at first. What is even more surprising is that it is not alienating. Ferencz also succeeds in this: to show the audience in the truest sense of the word that there are words beyond language - understanding is possible. And yet there is this loneliness. It can always be felt, but never depresses, rather touching, because it transports the deeply concentrated wanting to come to oneself to be with oneself of the mayfly. And besides, you know that, crucial, existential things you often have to endure alone and deal with yourself. One of the great things about the program is that everything, even if it concerns something profound and existential, is pervaded by a lightness (even the most physically demanding moments) that corresponds to the small, delicate creature of the mayfly and enchants the viewers. Stefan Ferencz does not play a flash in the pan - also thanks to the direction of his partner Maike Jansen - but is one. At the end you leave and wonder if "pohyb's and the like" didn't just show us that our lives aren't that different.