Stage Diving (12.09.2025), Maria Kremer, Hanns Bahra, Leon Mörmann

STAGE DIVING

an exhibition text in three acts

The cast arrives at the scenery. 
The stage is yours, someone whispers.

On the internet I look up how to format a screenplay. I quickly find it: THE STANDARD STAGE PLAY FORMAT, as a PDF overview. Rules upon rules upon rules and therefore I also quickly lose the desire to keep reading. This is not a play... but I can’t shake off the feeling of being in a stage set. The props are versatile.

Act I

[THE CURTAIN]

The fabric rises. The stage is stripped, structures laid bare, the stretcher frame released, the fabric turned inside out. The protagonists slowly enter, they explore the framework that carries them, bring things into a new order

Act II

[THE DIVE]

Then a snapshot, as a starting point of the story. Albert Einstein enters the stage, he says: I trust my intuition. The actors step to the edge of the stage, they think of his words as they leap into the audience. A dive into the crowd, or into the aquarium, of which no one is certain whether this or that little space is meant.

Akt III

[THE ENJOYMENT]

Expand the piece with references to fantastic stories. EAT ME, and suddenly the legs shoot into the air and, ouch, the head hits the ceiling, reaches through it. DRINK ME, and my body shrinks. From the rows of the third balcony the colorful bustle turns into a miniature.

The lights turn black. A vague memory comes to me of what it is like to sit in the audience of an interactive stage show, nervously fidgeting in the seat until the final applause, afraid of being picked out myself and brought up on stage

But maybe I only dreamed that

[THE END]