Daddy

Red carpet, Hollywood, glamour – Mara is living the dream that many people long for. Through the game «Daddy», the thirteen-year-old becomes a celebrated star, an actress, famous and rich. Thanks to twenty-seven-year-old Julien, who discovers her talent and promises her everything she desires, she continues to rise in «Daddy». A fascinating and frighteningly real parallel world opens up to her. The stage is transformed into a virtual playing field.  But the more she is drawn in, the more the boundaries between dream and reality blur: «Hollywood is dead, but «Daddy» lives on. It is there for everyone who dreams of a perfect world: a world where you can be happy, where you can make your dreams come true, no matter who you are.»

The new text by the young award-winning French theater maker Marion Siéfert and her co-author Matthieu Bareyre explores theater in the depths of our increasingly digitalized reality. They use the stage and its long tradition of playing with identity to create a world in which reality and fiction blur into one another, but at the same time collide brutally.

The director and head of RESI FÜR ALLE, Daniela Kranz, has brought the experiences of young people to the stage with great sensitivity in recent seasons with her works such as «Ist mein Mikro an?­» and «Tick Tack». Now, in collaboration with RESI DIGITAL, she is staging the German-language premiere of «Daddy» with ensemble actors and young amateur performers.

The Residenztheater team has shortened and adapted the text by Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre for the German-language premiere. The staging of the French premiere, which Marion Siéfert herself was responsible for, is based on a more extensive version of the play.