DOD

DOD—the program that was so abruptly halted by the pandemic in March 2020—will be revived in the spring of 2025. The few performances of this program, along with increased demand, led Gerd Dudenhöffer to consider reviving it.

DOD
Life Is the End
Gerd Dudenhöffer as Heinz Becker

Cemetery bells. Deep and resonant. Gloomy. Suddenly, a cold white light. Heinz Becker comes home from the funeral into the kitchen. In his black suit; 5 calla lilies in his hand: “I forgot to throw those into the grave.” Instead, they now lie on the kitchen table. What can you do!?

“Want another beer?” The obligatory, endearing question—in his former life.
From now on, he has to decide for himself. Familiar routine? Gone. Nothing is as it was. His everyday life—collapsed. On top of that, this grief. Painful contemplation. This awkward helplessness. And slowly he begins to ponder, to reflect, to process...

For over 30 years, Gerd Dudenhöffer—his keen, attuned ear directly attuned to middle-class sensibilities—has played his realistically satirical, grotesquely authentic fictional character as a personified caricature of the narrow-minded, universal person like you and me, the average Joe, whom he pointedly exposes with perfect timing, sparing facial expressions, devoid of any political correctness, always naturally with hearty, often unintentional—because “Heinz-typical”—humor.

DOD – theatrical “cabaret noir,” rigorously staged, black-and-white, light-dark, skillfully maintaining the balance between tragedy and comedy. Tragicomic, in fact. Because Heinz is Heinz. ‘Dead certain.’