LUCKY FLASH

...Simon brought them a small cardboard box, an undeveloped disposable camera. What shots does it hold? What ghosts?

According to the first clues, they might come from far away, from a country that no longer exists – the GDR (German Democratic Republic) – and from an era before their birth. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall. But how can one document a place that no longer exists? While waiting for developing day, fantasies run high, the fiction engine races to fill in the gaps of history and their questions.

On stage, silhouettes gradually emerge, giving outline and substance to this mysterious vanished country. Characters or actors, it is hard to tell them apart. Temporality eludes us; just like looking at a photograph, here we are propelled to two places and two eras at the same time. The only anchor: the stories we tell ourselves. Welcome to the GDR; if you are lost, follow the ghosts!