Die Nebenwirkungen - Schedule, Program & Tickets

The so-called "Tocqueville Paradox," developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 book On Democracy in America, states that anger at and resistance to privilege and injustice increases as the injustices themselves decrease. According to the inventor of modern political science, if there is nothing but injustice everywhere, then the individual inequality is not particularly noticeable, while in a situation of extensive equality even the slightest deviation is intolerable.
The parents' council of the progressive private school where Jonathan Spector's play is set works hard day in and day out to make the last differences visible and to make them disappear. Everyone should feel welcome, heard and seen at this school for a better life. When a mumps epidemic broke out, the committee was confronted with an ordinance from the school authorities stating that from now on only vaccinated students would be allowed to attend classes, but the well-established consensus democracy was thrown into turmoil.

Jonathan Spector's tragic comedy, which was created in 2018, takes all the irreconcilability of recent years to the extreme and makes the pressing questions behind it visible: What do we mean by democracy? How do we want to make decisions? What opportunities for involvement and participation should there be? Are the interests of the community limited by individual freedom? Or rather vice versa?

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