Festival “Theater der Welt”: At the end the giant cock is deliciously grilled

2023-07-01 18:30:43

Culture Festival “Theater of the World”

At the end, the megaphallus is deliciously grilled

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Desire for the incorrect: “The Bacchae. Holstein dairy cows”

Source: Theaters of the World

What happens when a dozen stoned, porn-addicted teens who’ve been staring too much “South Park” ask Chat GPT for a play? Maybe a bit like what you can see on stage in Offenbach and Frankfurt now.

What’s going on here? Between cum fountains from giant cocks and confessions of the polymorphous-perverted sexuality of a toy spaniel named Hawaii, you inevitably have to ask yourself this question. “The Bacchae. Holstein-Milchkuhe” by director and author Satoko Ichichara, who was born in Japan in 1988, opens the “Theatre of the World” festival in Offenbach’s Capitol Theater – as human-animal hardcore porn somewhere between Euripides, “elementary particles” and Henchai. The trash factor explodes every scale, the limits of good taste are pulverized.

“The Bacchae. Holstein dairy cows” is the shrillest, weirdest, craziest, and also the craziest thing that has been seen on a theater stage for a long time. At first glance, it looks like a dozen stoned, porn-addicted teenagers who’ve been gawking too much “South Park” spent a night experimenting with ChatGPT. Hey ChatGPT, what’s up with a castrated toy spaniel when he’s jumped on by a giant dog or orally masturbates his mistress using margarine. Do you really want to know? Not really. Is it fun? As long as you’re not a stoned teenager, only partially.

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It all starts with Kellogg’s cereal. As a light breakfast, they are said to relieve sexual desire and act against masturbation, the main character tells us about the inventor. And before you know it, you’re at her job as an insemination specialist for dairy cattle. In the process, she also comes into contact with the eponymous Holstein cows. When she – inspired by her professional activity? – Feeling her own desire to have children, she orders exclusive Japanese sperm from Denmark, which she injects into a cow, whereupon a hybrid creature similar to an ancient centaur is created.

Cow below, human above, this mythical creature appears one day, armed with a megaphallus, which, however, is described as a sperm-squirting giant clitoris. Anyway. It is now raised with porn magazines before it is sold to various perverts as an exclusive pleasure. Some Identity Conflicts – Am I a cow-human transgender lesbian? – included. Meanwhile, the mother – technically you could call her father as well – hangs around in the swingers’ club, with mixed experiences. And then there’s toy spaniel Hawaii, which brings a canine perspective to pack banging. That too.

So much lust of the flesh

This is framed by a 13-strong women’s choir – “the choir of cow souls” – singing songs about the stunning quality of Japanese sperm, the misery of Japanese housewives (“I’m an ironing board”) or the abysses of human or less than human desires. And somewhere in this jumble of topics between animal husbandry, meat consumption, artificial insemination, pornography and gender relations, you realize that it has something to do with Euripides’ “bakes” in that the powers of Dionysus, the god of pleasure and intoxication, also cause confusion there .

So much lust for meat – in the end the giant cock is deliciously grilled (don’t forget to marinate beforehand!) – is far removed from all vegan trends. “The Bacchae. Holstein dairy cows” is grossly incorrect in every respect – and intends to be. A bit too trying to be provocative, one sometimes thinks, but one really can’t deny Ichichara’s desire for provocation. Rather, stringency is lacking, the evening breaks up into individual revue numbers, some of which are overlong. In any case, a brilliant opening presented by the program director Chiaki Soma, who comes from Japan.

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“Theater der Welt” is one of the most important festivals for international theater in Germany. It takes place every three years in different cities – this time in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach. Numerous productions from abroad can be seen until July 16, including the VR installation “A Conversation with the Sun” by Apitchatpong Weerasethakul (“Memoria”), “Angela (A Strange Loop)” by Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg and the much-discussed French play Catarina, or The Beauty of Killing Fascists by Tiago Rodrigues, director of the Festival d’Avignon.

“Theater der Welt” will take place in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach until July 16: