A «theatre addict» is how the press describes the German director Monika Gintersdorfer, who has gained critical acclaim with her unique projects between fiction and reality. «Betrügen», developed with the visual artist Knut Klassen, is a rather clever and entertaining theatre experiment. It focuses on the «jet set» attitude of immigrants from the Ivory Coast: They take on stage names, claim to be famous stars and act accordingly. No money? No documents? Who cares about such small details? Life is a party and they are the VIP. Appearance above reality! Nonchalantly and with arresting imagination, three Ivorian jetsetters talk about their lives and substantiate their decadent lifestyle with almost subversive radicalism. Their performances are simultaneously translated and brilliantly «mirrored» by the German actor Hauke Heumann. A fantastic show about real theatre. (esc)