Art

Is this art or can it be thrown away? Art is something that is easy to argue about. With brilliant wordplay and absurd situational comedy, Yasmina Reza tells of "art" in particular and life in general. In short: Reza writes comedies that are so light that you don't even notice how difficult they are.

When Serge buys an incredibly expensive painting, the male friendship between him, Marc and Ivan threatens to break down. They are not only unimpressed by the real Antrios, white stripes on a white background, but are downright stunned that someone would spend 200,000 francs on such "shit". The developing argument over a white canvas plunges the three of them ever deeper into a whirlpool of insults and misunderstandings.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: "Reza is incredibly seductive for the theater because apart from her, hardly any other authors today write good dialogues, intelligent jokes are well received by audiences who are emaciated by entertainment technology, and it is much more beautiful to say goodbye to grandeur in the comfortable collective of the auditorium."