The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

There are three important events in life: birth, death and a salary increase. Two of these are certain, but with the third, it is more than questionable how high the chances actually are. The question of a pay rise must nevertheless be asked, and Perec's proliferating text plays through all its possible variations and outcomes – literally all of them: Is the department head in his office? Will he come back? Does he have time? Does he offer a chair? Does he understand the request? Does he support it? And what will come of it? Yes? No?

With great humour, Georges Perec dissects working and everyday life and plays with the rules of language. Perec's texts, long unjustly underrated in the theatre, are now finally being (re)discovered for the stage. Following his productions of Clyde and Bonnie and Eschenliebe in the Oval Office, Albrecht Schroeder is now staging one of this author's plays in Bochum for the first time: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, or How to Maximise Your Chances of Getting a Raise from Your Boss, Regardless of Sanitary, Psychological, Climatic, Economic or Other Conditions.