War of the roses against the loss of happiness
In the end there is rapturous applause at Kammerspiele theatre for a great actress: Gilla Cremer, who presented a fragile, very contemporary phenomenon and mastered it in an equally nightmarish and desperately funny, playful way: Mobbing. The term stands for mean, sometimes malicious or subtle bullying by badmouthing in the work place. It is followed by redundancy, destruction of livelihoods, loss of self-esteem that lead to suicidal thoughts.
„‚Mobbing‘ is the title of a similarly factually and vividly written novel by Annette Pehnt, which Gilla Cremer, with the help of the director and stage designer Michael Heicks, has dramatised and premiered. It is a superb night, a dense and multi-layered chamber play in which Gilla Cremer is either in monologue or dialogue with her partner (Patrick Cybinsky) who is silenced by mobbing, socially excluded and more and more alienated and quite plainly displays in full view the process of disintegration of a once happy family.
Her soft hoarse voice sharpens, she laughs but feels like crying because the mutual support, respect for one another has been lost. Along with the tenderly sugar-coated image of her husband she had created for herself. Now they are at war. Misunderstandings, reproaches, mistrust and the resultant silence have poisoned life. The woman disappears in the darkness; the cello has the final say.“
(MN Die Welt)