Radio plays

"You have to ask, because there is no answer".

Author: Arthus C. Caspari (BRD 1921)
Genre: Radio play
Production: NDR/DLR 1997
Director: Götz Naleppa
Length: 61 min.

Contributors:
Michael Degen, Monica Bleibtreu, Heiko Senst, Sabine Falkenberg, Rama Dublish, Fei Yujiao, a.o.

Content:
The paradoxical title of Caspari's radio play leads us on the right track: into a conundrum with a philosophical background. Starting from the realisation that we live in a society that knows the answer to everything and no longer asks any questions, Caspari has built a play arrangement that varies his theme in a series of witty and profound scenes: can man live with questions without a clear answer? He wants to sow uncertainty against the credo of the information society that every question can be answered, either with yes or no, zero or one. Against the binary system's claim to absoluteness, he sets the creative labyristic imagination. "Labyr" is his personal word creation from labyrinth and laboratory, an art theory or also an outlook on life, in any case a rejection of the certainty of answers.


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