Manuel Rubey & Simon Schwarz: Das Restaurant

Prinz-Eugen-Straße/ Ecke Plößlgasse

1030 Wien

 

THE RESTAURANT

Manuel Rubey and Simon Schwarz are both left-handed. At least. Nevertheless, the two friends think it's a great idea to open a restaurant. Simon has already played a chef in a film and Manuel likes to drink wine. That should be enough for the sake of expertise, they think. The upscale restaurant in the middle of the province is supposed to outshine everything that has come before. But in the light of day, it looks more like a candidate for "botched construction."

When the restaurant then burns down, it smells strongly of arson. At least for the village policewoman, who uses the investigation with the acting stars to get her true crime podcast off the ground.

The search for the fire devil takes Manuel Rubey and Simon Schwarz back into the past, into their innermost being and to essential questions such as: Aren't we all little arsonists in some way? In our friendships? At work? In our relationships?

For the policewoman, the case is clear anyway: it was Rubey who tore down the hut while it was still warm. Because the murderers may always be the gardeners, but the arsonists are always the Viennese.

Book: Sebastian Huber, Jürgen Marschal, Manuel Rubey, Simon Schwarz

Director: Sebastian Huber & Jürgen Marschal

(Source: theaterimpark.at)