Dancing Idiots - Theatre

Show & Culture

Goldie is terminally ill and renovating her house. Her joy in doing so is as contagious as it is disturbing. Her tomcat Apollo relishes her weakness and makes himself comfortable on top of her. Suddenly, Goldie’s father, newly in love, shows up at the door with his girlfriend and finds himself at his daughter’s deathbed. At first, he believes he knows; by the end, she knows. Together with Goldie, the audience experiences, scene by scene, everything that is hard to say goodbye to: animals, forests, saunas, dancing, kayaking, childhood memories. Goldie’s room becomes a resonating chamber of life and ultimately outer space. Dancing Idiots tells of dying and saying goodbye as the final realm of experience, and of the question: What remains? The characters are survivors on their way to the next catastrophe. What defines them is an absurd mixture of brutality and tenderness, anarchy and metaphysical instincts, the pain of existence and the joy of living.