Stereophonic

Venue: Room B - A recording studio in California in the seventies. The five-piece band meets to record their new album. The ambition to build on the success of the last album and, in the best case, surpass it is great. Working in the recording studio presents the band not only with musical challenges, but also with human challenges: While the band members try to produce good songs, interpersonal tensions become ever greater. Peter, lead vocals and guitar, is exerting immense pressure on his bandmates with his delusion of control, who are increasingly resisting this. His wife Diana, lead vocals, is enjoying success as a songwriter, while her desire for independence is constantly growing. Holly, lead vocals and keyboard, longs for a self-determined life, but has to take care of her cocaine-addicted ex Reg, electric bass, so that the album is ever finished. Simon, drums, misses his wife and children in England, whom he hasn't seen for years because of his career. Grover, the sound engineer, lied to get the job and is unsure if he was up to the task. Charlie, his assistant, may be the cousin of one of the Doobie Brothers, but he is also completely inexperienced.

How much do you have to sacrifice for art and how is the best art created? How do you assert your artistic claim to create something great against colleagues who are not involved with the same passion? Can too much perfectionism break something? What role does the private sphere play in the creative process? The piece by David Adjmi, which premiered in New York and has won several awards and which Thomas Ostermeier will premiere in German in autumn, explores these questions. The music for the piece was composed by Will Butler, founding member of the band Arcade Fire.