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In New York, Eitan fall in love with Wahida, who is of Arab origins. Eitan’s Jewish parents, and especially his father David, the son of a Holocaust-survivor, are unable to accept this love. The conflict escalates. When the couple travels to Israel, Eitan is seriously injured during a bomb attack at the border and ends up in a coma. At his sickbed, things that have been long kept under wraps are finally talked about. The love story turns into a family thriller and finally into a modern Oedipus-narrative. Wajdi Mouawad, a Franco-Canadian theatre maker and multiple award-winning author was born in Lebanon. His play Vögel (Birds of a Kind), written in four languages, is a powerful and poetic portrait of both the enduring conflict in the Middle East and the topics of family, identity and guilt – and the unquenched longing to rid oneself of it.
In German, English, Hebrew and Arabic, with German and English surtitles.
- Naomi Krauss as Leah, Großmutter
- Philine Schmölzer as Wahida
- Dennis Svensson as Eitan Zimmermann
- Martin Rentzsch as David
- Robert Spitz as Etgar
- Kathrin Wehlisch as Norah
- Hadar Dimand as Eden, Soldatin, Rabbinerin
- Rafat Alzakout as Alwazzan, Kellner
- Robert Schuster Regie
- Sascha Gross Bühne/Kostüm
- Jörg Gollasch Musik
- Bahadir Hamdemir Video
- Benjamin Schwigon Licht
- Karolin Trachte, Marion Hirte Dramaturgie
