Hate-Triptych or: Ways Out of the Crisis

They live near motorway junctions or on grey, concrete housing estates. They are black or gay, right-wing or alcoholics, they are men, women or something in between. They have nothing in common except anger at a society obsessed with self-optimization and human functioning and with market value, even though the market itself has been drifting aimlessly for a long time. It’s only when a Hate Master enters the scene that redemption seems near. Those who feel humiliated pick up arms and strike back without mercy.

«Sibylle Berg’s text deals with a hatred that has enveloped society, primarily the anger felt by a middle class whose fortunes have fallen. They have been robbed of their jobs, social connections, sex, the future, their families, their childhoods, their holidays in the Provence. But it wouldn’t be a Berg play if her critique of late-stage capitalism wasn’t striated with a substantial dose of cynicism. Self-pity leads to a provocative form of therapy, namely terrorism. Everything must die! In the theatre, the roles of victim and outsider are normally cultivated. Here, they are challenged.» (Der Standard)