Selfaccusation is the raising of a consciousness, a sentimental education toward the word. What becomes visible through this selfaccusating gesture is not so much a „we“, as an „I-You“, an „I-All“: what difference does it make if it was me that did a certain action, that pronounced a certain sentence? There is a text of which the world is made of and there is no way to escape from that responsability. The choice of a bilingual version makes visible the being stranger in the text, the language as robe and a habit. A language that came to us by education, that is never sufficient. The play shows, what language is, what it can be and unfolds by this way that potential of not assimilable, essential, agonistic and provocative thoughts, needed by present.

by Peter Handke
translation Werner Waas, Lea Barletti
with Lea Barletti, Werner Waas
and Harald Wissler (music)

production and direction Barletti/Waas

duration 1h

performance in German and Italian with Italian, German and English surtitles



Lea Barletti and Werner Waas met many years ago in Rome. Since then they have lived and worked together, first in Rome, then in Munich, then in Lecce, and currently in Berlin. Together they have produced, directed and performed a large number of performances, founded a theater company (Induma Teatro), a Multidisciplinary Cultural Center (“Manifatture Knos” in Lecce, still active today), organized seven editions (between 2008 and 2015) of the Festival/Laboratory of Performing Arts “K-now!”, invented a contemporary dramaturgy prize (“The Center of Discourse”, three editions between 2008 and 2011), founded another company (Barletti/Waas), with which they currently tour and work between Germany and Italy, and done a great number of other things over the years, including two sons (Rocco and Tobia).