The Nation. Une Soirée Posthelvétique
An evening of theater in three infusions

Switzerland sinks into glacial water, the audience sits in the sauna.
As the heat rises, Helvetia, the national icon, and Lioba, a cow, engage in a strange duel. It's all about the big picture: Helvetia is launching an initiative to abolish Switzerland. Lioba is against it.
The audience is encouraged to vote and the theater situation becomes a political assembly. Sometimes Helvetia maltreats the audience with stage German, sometimes she swears in French, sometimes she warbles a hometown song in dialect, and another time she can't make a sound in English... until at some point she completely loses her tongue.
Helvetia's attempt to revolutionize Switzerland fails.

Après la Suisse, c'est avant la fin?
When Helvetia transforms, begins to sing like a siren, flakes her scales, grows gills and a tail, Switzerland transforms with her. How does Lioba react to the fact that her homeland is transforming? What does a cow do when her country is no longer the same?
On verra bien!

The Posthelvetia collective works at the interface of drama and performance, in the mode of the absurd and sensual.

A fairytale deconstruction of Switzerland - wild, critical and tenderly radical

Admission: 18.-/24.-/30.-

Text : Deborah Lara Schaefer, Sophie Schmid
With: Lo Reichenbach, Luna Schmid, Germaine Sophie Sollberger
Dramaturgy: Anja Römisch
Scenography and set design: Sophie Schmid
Music: Lo Reichenbach
Production management: Lara Bumbacher
Duration: 70 min (without intermission)