A slapstick office party

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his/her identity, and possibly his/her sanity, as he/she tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he/she follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he/she will succeed, but, in accepting these conditions, are his/her attempts to challenge his/her world of work doomed from the outset?

The Art of Asking Your Boss for A Raise is an attempt at exhausting a loop of conditionals. It is a carefully controlled thought experiment. It is a sitcom that takes place over decades. It’s a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story written by someone who loves modal logic, during which you make no choices of your own and none of your decisions would make a difference anyway.

With: Markus Zett, Anat Stainberg, Isabella Händler, Stephanie Cumming, Florian Tröbinger, Anna Rot, Anna Mendelssohn
Set Design: Paul Horn
Sound Design: Michael Strohmann
Assistant Director: Katharina Höltermann
Text: Georges Perec, adapted for the stage by Yosi Wanunu
Directed by Yosi Wanunu
Produced by Kornelia Kilga

Co-produced by brut Wien/Oct 1 – 8, 2021