Super normal things

Lecture performance and multimedia theatre work about tires, crisis, failure, and hope
Co-created with Gaurav Singh Nijjer (IN)

Background

Super normal things is a multimedia theatre performance exploring the lived emotional experience of a world in seemingly-perpetual, overlapping, and increasing crisis. It confronts the absurdity of navigating the global trauma of climate change, propaganda in all its forms, personal and familial disintegration, and apocalypse fatigue. The intimate, contradictory, fragmented work–with personal narratives, global interviews, how-to guides, and live interactions that are as dark as they are playful–presents a human-sized attempt to understand what it means to care, feel, and act when doing so feels like too little, too late.

This piece comes from many conversations about exhaustion, empathy, propaganda, and the quiet normalization of collapse: how the things that scare or numb us have somehow become part of our everyday. It’s an intimate, fragmentary work that tries to hold space for both care and confusion, for grief and the strange comfort of carrying on.

Premiered 19 October 2025
Deutsches SchauSpielHaus MalerSaal
as part of the “Happy Endings” symposium on Palliative Dramaturgies, conceived and curated by Les Dramaturx & Martin Györffy

Other performances:
MonologFestival, Theater Discounter, Berlin, 13 November 2025
Osten Festival, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, September 2026

Credits

Wilson Tanner Smith (Performance, co-creation)
Gaurav Singh Nijjer (co-creation, multimedia)