Super Normal Things
Oct 2025
Co-Creator
A multimedia theatre performance about the ways in which the world is ending.
Apocalypse fatigue, trauma, climate change, propaganda, personal disintegration – it has all become super normal. But how do we hold on to confidence? Wilson Tanner Smith (USA/FI) & Gaurav Singh Nijjer (INDIA) engage in a fragmented monologue with the voices in their heads and those out there in the world. They attempt to grasp, on a human scale, what it means to empathize and to care – while the thought arises that it is always too little, and far too late.
Presented as part of “Happy Endings,” a symposium on palliative dramaturgy conceived and curated by les dramaturx and Martin Györffy, in cooperation with the Ligeti Center and the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. Supported by the OSTEN Festival, Ligeti Zentrum and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
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We’ve been sitting with the ways in which chaos has become ordinary: how climate collapse, genocide, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and quiet personal crises all coexist in our daily lives. How do we still care for each other when everything feels like it’s too little, too late?
Almost a year after "we are a people among stuff" opened at the Malersaal, Wilson and I are back at the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus... this time with a new piece called SUPER NORMAL THINGS.
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It’s a small, intimate performance, part conversation, part lecture, part collage of things that shouldn’t feel normal but somehow do.
Creative Team
Co-created by Wilson Tanner Smith and Gaurav Singh.
We'd like to acknowledge the voices of the following people in the development of the production: Angela, Jahaanvi, Jasmiini, Riddhijit, Donny, Varoon, Molly, Anupriya, Yesmith, Brian, Kamlesh
We'd like to thank Denis Polec and Ria Singh for their technical support for the performance in Berlin at TD Berlin as part of Monologen Festival 2025.
We'd like to thank Christian Tschirner, Martin Györffy, Lynn Musiol and Judith Paletta for their support in the development of this work.
Performance History
19th October 2025 - Premiere as part of 'Happy Endings' conference at Malersaal, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
13th November 2025 - Presented at TD Berlin as part of Monologen Festival 2025 collaboration with Osten Festival
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