PFORTE

Doorman Mike Müller stops people. Some pass by the gate because they want to go home after work. Some want to get to work and not be delayed, others want to look around the building and have a few questions. Mike Müller certainly has a few questions for the people who come by. Officially, it's called a chat. At the gate, they call it chit-chat. It can be serious when you ask a politician who is running for mayor the crucial question: ‘Ms Kahriman, tell me, how do you feel about the theatre?’ The doorman certainly doesn't ask this question to Karin Pfammatter, a member of the Schauspielhaus ensemble. With her, the conversation is likely to relax into a chat about a fetish from her youth. This much can be revealed: Mike Müller used to ski on the same skis as downhill ace Karin Pfammatter when he was a teenager: Blizzard, pronounced in German. And then there are two guys from Oberwinterthur who make a very successful podcast ‘for people whose names are underlined in red in Word’. Yoldaş Gündoğdu and Serhat Koca are ‘Kurds & Bündig’ and Mike Müller doesn't know whether to greet them as Kurds from Oberwinterthur or Kurdish Oberwinterthur residents, or whether that doesn't really matter. Yoldaş and Sero want to become artistic directors and have big plans. At least, that's what the doorman believes.

PFORTE begins at 8 p.m. and lasts no longer than a bad B-movie. There is no intermission, but cool drinks are available at reasonable prices afterwards.