Daddy

In this production, there are shooting noises from video games and flashing lights.

Red carpet, Hollywood, glamour - Mara is living the dream that many people long for. Playing «Daddy», the thirteen-year-old becomes a celebrated star, an actress, famous and rich. Thanks to twenty-seven-year-old Julien, who discovers her talent and promises her everything she longs for, she continues to rise in the game.  A fascinating and frighteningly real parallel world opens up to her. The stage is transformed into a virtual playing field.  But the more she falls under its spell, the more the boundaries between dream and reality blur: «Hollywood is dead, but ‹Daddy› is alive. It's for everyone who dreams of a perfect world: a world in which you can be happy, in which you can realise your dreams, no matter who you are.»

The new text by the young, award-winning French theatre-maker Marion Siéfert and her co-author Matthieu Bareyre searches for theatre in the depths of our increasingly digitalised reality. They use the stage and its long tradition of playing with identity to create a world in which reality and fiction blur into one another, but at the same time brutally collide.

In recent seasons, director and head of RESI FÜR ALLE Daniela Kranz has brought the world of young people's experiences to the stage with great empathy in her works such as «Ist mein Mikro an?» and «Tick Tack». She is now staging the German-language premiere of «Daddy» with ensemble actors and young amateur actors in collaboration with RESI DIGITAL.

The Residenztheater team has shortened and adapted the text by Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre for the German-language premiere. The production of the French premiere, for which Marion Siéfert herself was responsible, is based on a more extensive version of the play.