“This fucked-up thing happened yesterday. Did you hear about it? A man. A car. Two explosions. Right in the centre of the city. I call my brothers and say, No, no one was apprehended. No one was suspected. I call my brothers and say, Here we go!”

On the day after the suicide attack in Stockholm in 2010, whereby the assassin died and two pedestrians were injured, Amor walks the streets of the city and calls his “brothers”. His best friend, who is increasingly getting on his nerves since he has become a father, his cousin at “home”, far away from Stockholm, who incessantly reprimands him for his unreliability, and his childhood sweetheart, whom he is still hopelessly in love with. An almost totally ordinary day in the life of a totally normal young man, who for the first time in his life has to look into the mirror “others” are holding up to him.

“Who are the others? There are no others. There are extremists on all sides wanting to make us believe these others actually exist. Anyone talking about the others is an idiot.”

The play which was developed within the framework of the European dance network Europe Now is a co-production with the state theatre Landestheater Niederösterreich in collaboration with Maxim Gorki Theater. “Ich rufe meine Brüder“ will be presented within Dogland 2, a co-production series for the promotion of young talents involving Ballhaus Naunynstraße and Maxim Gorki Theater. Dogland 2 ties in with the young post-migrant theatre festival Dogland which constituted the opening programme of Ballhaus Naunynstraße in the winter season of 2008/09. Five years later, both theatres are now taking the next step together.