BAD MEXICAN DOG

About the show

Cancun, Mexico. A beach lined with lounge chairs under parasols. Tourists from the Global North bake their plump, smooth-shaven bodies in the sun. This is the luxury they've paid for. The beach is a sun economy where all dependencies play out in a very small space. The beach boys empty themselves, transforming into cute little panthers, flattering the tourists to get their money. The service knows no bounds, as long as the payment is right. The system doesn't quite add up, because vacationers want to boast back home about having had another incredibly cheap trip and escaping the scams. But in this system, everyone has to make sacrifices, and so the dream vacation can quickly turn into a nightmare. Jonas Eika, born in 1991, is a Danish writer and political activist. Eika's book "After the Sun" won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2019, the highest award for authors in Scandinavia, and was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2022. With its sensuality and musicality, Jonas Eika's text takes us on an almost physical journey into the inner landscapes of his protagonists. He opens up new spaces of imagination in which we can explore the emotional worlds of alienation. Ensemble member Claudius Steffens leads us to the seabed, a space of perception where we jointly examine the disturbed underbelly of our ailing ecosystem. "Bad Mexican Dog" will be dramatized for a German audience for the first time in Düsseldorf.