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Everything in order?

Order is half the battle, as some of us have learnt. In the course of our lives, we realise that this proverb could actually be true, because from adolescence onward we understand that the concept of order no longer just refers to the condition of our childhood bedroom.  We gradually learn that order regulates social interaction and that it is a concept that penetrates far into complex areas of mathematics, biology, electrical engineering, plant sociology, physics and, of course, art. It is the basis of rules and laws in the philosophical and legal sense, in fact the first form of any relationship, meaning the relationship between parts of a whole and between parts and the whole. But what does order mean for the individual? What kind of order is universal and what kind is individual?  Where do we encounter it in our everyday lives? When does it help us and when does it stand in our way?  How political is order? Can we live completely without it? And what about disorder? The chaos, the confusion? How much order do we need? What opportunities does chaos offer? We have talked to our fellow human beings about order and chaos, in other words, control and freedom. Our research dives into the different areas in which chaos and order have a place in our lives and the individual perceptions associated with these concepts. To this end, we conducted a lengthy interview with 20 people to ask them about their experiences, limits and feelings on the subject of order and chaos or control and freedom.  When selecting the interviewees, it is very important and a matter of course for us that the group of people is as diverse as possible in terms of age, gender and social background. After dramaturgical editing, we put this text material into a ‘playable form’ in order to create a concept for the development of a theatre performance.