Name: The Video Evidence
Start: 2026-09-15T22:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-16T00:00:00+02:00
Location: Deutsches Theater Göttingen - Keller

A bitterly humorous theater evening about love, lies, and the long shadow of memory

With The Video Evidence, the Deutsches Theater Göttingen presents a sharply observed relationship comedy that looks into the depths of everyday life with humor, embarrassment, and precise dramaturgy. Sébastien Thiéry starts where trust becomes fragile and one's own truth wavers.

When a dispute becomes evidence

At the center is a couple whose shared history is filled with memories, excuses, and half-spoken truths. The material unfolds its effect not through grand gestures but through subtle shifts in dialogue, in those moments when comedy suddenly turns into discomfort. This is precisely where the play derives its tension: from the question of what a person can admit in a relationship without risking everything.

Acting between precision and escalation

The Deutsches Theater Göttingen, according to its own play presentation, relies on a production full of humor and a touch of embarrassment that allows the audience to look very privately into an increasingly crumbling relationship. The critical accompaniment emphasizes how the ensemble carries the intensification of the scenes with fine gestures, facial expressions, and a keen sense of rhythm. This creates an intense stage experience that does not rely on volume but on exact observation.

A minimalist set design with maximum impact

Particularly appealing is the contrast between the simple layout of the stage space and the emotional overheating of the characters. When the stage remains deliberately reduced, language, timing, and reactiveness come to the forefront. This enhances the theater atmosphere, as every silence, every excuse, and every glance gains weight. The evening thrives on the concentration on the essential: relationship as a battlefield of memory.

Sébastien Thiéry and the tradition of absurd comedy

The French author Sébastien Thiéry is known as an actor and playwright and combines comedy with a clear love for the absurd in his works. Here, he follows this line: the characters become increasingly entangled in contradictions until an everyday crisis evolves into an artfully constructed relationship farce. This recalls great models of modern comedic art but remains unmistakably contemporary and socially precise.

What the audience in Göttingen can expect

The Video Evidence promises a clever, pointed, and at the same time very entertaining theater evening for all who love precisely played comedies with psychological undertones. Those who want to engage with nuanced acting, sharp dialogues, and a production full of subtext should not miss this date. Live in the theater, this evening unfolds all its power.