Theater im Bahnhof (A) Time to get ready for love Song performance

0% music 50% men 50% midlife

What songs define our lives? What was the song of our first love, our first kiss? The first time we were left? The first existential despair? The second love?
Four forty-something men write memories on record covers. They look for words, stammering perhaps, and when they quote titles or lyrics, their English sounds Styrian. But these covers mean a lot to them, they are part of them.
The four men grew up at a time when it was still important to carry records around with you in order to find your own identity. They were fans of Frank Zappa or Talking Heads or Pink Floyd. Once that was settled, a lot of other questions were unnecessary. And so these four men are like vulnerable dinosaurs, trying to capture the past with the lyrics and hooks of their songs, at least for these ninety minutes – forever young. United in the belief that a song still says more than anything else.
But there is no music on this evening staged jointly by Graz Theater im Bahnhof and Robin Arthur, a member of the legendary British group Forced Entertainment, who featured at steirischer herbst two years ago. Just words, words, words. And we hear the melody in our own memories.