Caveman – “You collect, I hunt!”

Two hundred thousand years – and a few more on top of that: since the dawn of mankind, men and women have been passionately trying to master everyday life together. Or even to lead a partnership.

But it is only in the current millennium that CAVEMAN provides charming proof that the fundamental challenges of a relationship have not changed significantly, even in times of three-room condominiums and the hunt for smartphones. Because there is one thing that civilisation and progress have not been able to change:

A realisation rich in relationships, but one that provides pure pleasure thanks to the likeable hero Tom. Together with him, the audience explores the unequal territories of the two species. On the one hand, there is the clearly organised world of sharp-shooting remote controls and rolling territories with remote-controlled central locking. On the other, that extraordinarily complex universe of best friends, unbridled imagination and baskets full of information. For example, we learn why HE wants TV to be classed as work and SHE wants a clean bathroom, even without planning an open lung operation. In love, engaged, damn funny – CAVEMAN takes an entertaining and accurate look at the inner workings of every relationship.

Rob Becker’s original play has already become the most successful solo play in Broadway history. And in Germany, too, CAVEMAN in the production by Esther Schweins and the translation by Kristian Bader has been a perennial favourite on the stage since 2000. Thanks to its trenchant ingenuity and loving treatment of deep truths and amusing clichés, CAVEMAN is now more than ever a must-see for anyone who is in, has been in or wants to be in a relationship. And turns the “mammoth task of a relationship” into an unforgettably entertaining evening.

Have fun!

with Volker Meyer-Dabisch