"1534 is about social utopia, about a revolution, about the belief in a better life, here and now. Obviously this means trouble."

1534 – While Europe is ravaged by epidemics, war and fear of death, Anabaptists persecuted throughout the continent gather in Münster in Westphalia to try out life in a free society. They experiment with free love, polygamous households, drugs, mass orgies, mystical rituals and salvation ceremonies. Then the troops of Bishop Franz von Waldeck take the besieged town, execute the revolutionaries and display the corpses in iron baskets on the church tower as a deterrent.
With the Anabaptists as blue print, Showcase Beat Le Mot celebrate a show that is good for as long as it lasts. And then it's over. A commemoration of a moment of freedom in Münster/Westphalia, AD 1534.

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot / Music: Thies Mynther / Choreography: Minako Seki, Showcase Beat Le Mot / Illusions (design, training): Manuel Muerte / Stage Structures, machines: Christian Wenzel, Atia Trofimoff / Video: Catalina Fernández / Sound Design: Paul Ratzel / Lighting Design: Ruprecht Lademann / Graphic Design:  Ruth May / Directing Assistant: Melina Gerstemann / Production Management: Olaf Nachtwey

1534 is a production by Showcase Beat Le Mot  with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster and WUK Wien. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin and the National Performance Netz as part of the co-production programm by Tanzplan Deutschland of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

"...There are always at least two ways of looking at the world: the analytical (brain-house) and the synthetic (cloud-house), the dissection of a mechanism or the connection to a meaning. As practiced dialecticians, Showcase Beat Le Mot carefully walk these poles and always arrive exactly where the either-or lies…"
(Berliner Zeitung, Doris Meierhenrich, Als es Münster an Monogamie mangelte)

"....The four performers, aptly described in the announcement as the "best boy group in contemporary German theater", focus on visuals and sensory experience in a performance that humorously explores the theme of anarchy and world domination and inevitably comes up against human abysses.…"
(Westfälische Nachrichten, Isabell Steinbröck, Arm, faul und ohne Einfluß)