“All we wanted to do was feel something again. Feel human. Then we had the idea of murdering someone.”

Ralf Droht and Sarah Kenner are bored. Should they murder Mr Kolpert to kill time? What would happen if they did?

Edith and Bastian await a pleasant dinner at the Droht household. But there’s knocking inside the chest on the lounge room floor and the pizza order’s all wrong again. This night’s rapidly turning into chaos...

gory, messy, over-the-top but undeniably funny...
a wicked treat for the morbidly inclined
Variety

This is German playwright David Gieselmann’s first major play. Written in German, its world premiere was in English at the Royal Court in London in 2000, with its German premiere later that year at the Schaubühne in Berlin. Mr Kolpert was written both as an exploration of chaos theory and also to explore themes closer to Gieselmann’s heart – the individuals’ isolation and loss of control over his environment in an increasingly commodified, capitalised and convenient society.

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Wild and thought-provoking
Sunday Telegraph, Sydney

featuring cathy kohlen, troy larkin, noni dunstone, david gardette, dan walls and mr kolpert

design naomi wong
lighting design Damien mclean
original audio craig tracy
dramaturg susanne kean
publicity jo kargiotis
stage manager chantal trimboli
production stills joanne kelly

wed 20 august - sat 6 september @ 8pm
no show 24, 25, 31 aug, 1 sept

$25 full
$15 conc preview 20 aug & tuesdays

The young German dramatist David Gieselmann gives Mr Kolpert a crazy, blood-drenched twist to a situation teasingly explored in the classic play and movie Rope ... Mr Kolpert also opens with a couple, a trunk and an impending dinner party. But here bored Ralf and Sarah decide to amuse themselves by pretending to their friends that the trunk contains the dead body of one of their work colleagues. Is this sick-joke dis-simulation a double bluff? ...
The Independent