Every­thing we could be

Anyone looking for a flat needs plenty of patience, luck and a mountain of paperwork. Yet life after moving in is so much more than the first impression you get during a viewing.

Lea and Nenad are a young couple looking for a new home. For them, every viewing becomes a backdrop for new dreams of home and new visions of everyday life, which could only unfold exactly like this in this living room. Where would the sofa go? How many people can sit at the dining table? Yet it remains to be seen which versions of their shared future will actually fit into this space. Lea and Nenad must ask themselves one key question: how do we want to live together?

The living-room opera by librettist Dmitrij Gawrisch and composer Samuel Penderbayne was developed in various private living rooms in Düsseldorf and Duisburg and, in a production directed by Theresa von Halle, is touring living rooms in both cities, as well as the UFO venue on Quartiersplatz in Düsseldorf Rath.