Drinking - a performance with English subtitles

A person lacks 0.5 ‰ of alcohol in their blood for happiness since birth. It's time to fix that! A brutal Nordic comedy.

Four friends, high school teachers (of history, music education, physical education, and psychology) have long resigned themselves in both their work and private lives to their life goals and dreams. They have been overtaken by burnout, and thus they survive in the monotonous routine of daily obligations. Until one day, at the celebration of the youngest among them's 40th birthday, they learn about a peculiar theory from a Norwegian philosopher. It claims that a person is born with a deficit of half a per mille of alcohol in their blood. If they were to replenish it, their life would immediately be more colorful, they would have much greater self-confidence, be more creative, and overall happier and more satisfied. Given the stagnation of their lives in both work and private spheres, as well as their long-standing resignation from all their life goals and dreams, they decide to test this thought experiment in practice. After all, there must be something to it, as Winston Churchill, Arthur Rimbaud, Ernest Hemingway, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jackson Pollock, Charles Bukowski, and many others had alcohol in their blood practically all the time. Martin, Nikolaj, Peter, and Tommy then buy alcohol and breathalyzers. The experiment can begin… It seems that the theory actually works! So why not increase the doses? Logically, there should also be an intensification of all those positive results. And then, all that remains is to achieve what they call the ignition!