Two gentlemen meet in the forest. Both of them had hoped to enjoy the peace and quiet alone. But now that they’ve met, they strike up a conversation. It turns out that they are both professional football players. One is a striker, the other a midfielder. What a wonderful coincidence: They both play for Real Madrid. And because they like each other, the striker invites the midfielder to spend Christmas at his parents’ house. They get closer at a funeral and a secretly taken photo turns their first kiss into a viral sensation. And of course, they are the centre of attention at a Real Madrid-press conference. And when the news that the striker has an offer from Paris Saint-German is about to leak, the world-famous defence player Sergio Ramos comes to their aid.
The young author Leo Meier celebrates a utopian, affirmative version of our society and sketches the humorous outline of a world where it is nothing special to ride a dragon to work or for footballers to fall in love with each other.
With zwei herren von real madrid, Leo Meier was invited to the 2022 Heidelberger Stückemarkt, where the play won the audience award and the radio play award.
Director Ronny Jakubaschk, whose work has been repeatedly invited to theatre festivals and won several awards, staged Was ihr wollt (Twelfth Night) at Hanover’s Theaterhof in 2021, and Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) by Matthew Lopez (2022) and Der Schimmelreiter (2023) at Schauspiel Hannover.