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They say we should ‘let the dead lie’ – but how does that work if the dead person is our best friend?

Flo and Ari have a lot in common: they’re best friends, both eleven years old and probably the best table tennis players of the coming decade. They spend every spare second on the concrete slabs in their suburban housing estate, smashing the balls over an iron net. The friends are inseparable, until Ari suddenly collapses at a table tennis camp over the summer holidays. He has a weak heart and dies. Flo’s world fractures.
After the summer, he has to go on to secondary school all by himself. News of Ari’s death doesn’t seem to have reached there yet and Flo simply can’t get the right words out when he hears Ari’s name called out in the first lesson. Instead, he simply claims that Ari has been called up to the squad for the Olympics and is now being coached at a training camp! When Flo gets hold of Ari’s mobile phone, he secretly pockets it – and gifts Ari a new, exciting life in the digital world where Ari can live on as a table tennis star. Flo even publishes ‘table tennis poetry’ in Ari’s name – and the verses, sometimes fast and elegant like ping pong, sometimes brutal like smashes, go viral and earn Ari (actually Flo) ever greater reach. Suddenly, Ari’s father arrives at the school one day and Flo’s tissue of lies begins to come apart… Is there an ‘appropriate’ or ‘right’ way to mourn his best friend? Are we allowed to create memories that never existed? In Smash, Dorian Brunz uses humour and lightness to express an eleven-year-old boy’s rage and sorrow as well as his imagination.

Recommended for ages ten and above

Production Staff

Director: Thomas Ladwig
Stage and Costume: Gesa Gröning
Dramaturg: Saskia Zinsser-Krys
Theater education: Anke Weingarte