Arrival at the hotel means 45 days to find a partner. The dream of living together in carefree togetherness seems within reach! However, to produce perfect couples, only one common characteristic is needed. Those who fail to fall in love during their stay will be transformed into animals. The hotel's mechanics relentlessly grind over its guests, including David, who is short-sighted and wears glasses.

In their film 'The Lobster', screenwriter Efthimis Filippou and director Yorgos Lanthimos create a restrictive system of enforced coupling. With hollow and overly specific language, they paint a sharp picture of societal coexistence. The characters stumble through this world, feeling out of place and robotic, every attempt at self-expression fails as time runs out. The apparent escape: the forest. Here, loners live by uncompromising rules, where any approach is forbidden. David flees here, unaware of the pain of loneliness. He meets the woman with the same average short-sightedness.

Lucia Bihler, who recently directed 'The Maids' at the Münchner Volkstheater, takes on the Oscar-nominated screenplay of 'The Lobster' and translates Lanthimos' dehumanized systems into striking theatrical worlds. Amid contorted bodies and learned constructs, the characters blindly search for alternative concepts and the (im)possibility of love and intimacy.