In Germany, Toks would be cast as an asylum seeker in a TV series, but not for Shakespeare's Othello. Lisa is simply too tall. Javeh can play anything, but usually ends up under a headscarf. However, since German television has often been dealing with stories of honor killings, a new field of work has opened up for her.
Three actors make their way through the clichéd depths of the migration foreground. In what future could Toks become pope after all, Javeh play men and Lisa become a woman in a leading position with a family life?
The boundaries of the free choice of roles are narrow and so the three of them take flight: to India, the land of new opportunities with the largest film and television industry in the world. But nothing here is as it says in the travel guide.
In the end, it's all a question of perspective.
A-Casting is a theater performance about the possible appropriation of impossible roles, old viewing habits and new caste systems, an ICE ride through evil clichés and an Air India flight into the future.
The evening was developed from different material. From interviews and personal experiences of the three actors, from scenic texts written by Irawati Karnik, Ajay Krishnan and Florian Hacke as commissioned texts for the actors, improvisations in the sound studio in Bangalore with MD Pallavi and Shashank Prakash and researched curiosities of cultural clichés in intercontinental transit.