Do you have the time to meet me today? Perhaps next week? “First Life - A Melodrama“ sketches real and fictitious relationships of couples, tells of love, breakup, and society. You talk to each other - especially about feelings - without becoming hysterical, of course, because everything is relative. Rarely do you hear somebody claim “For me, the only thing that counts is being in a happy relationship.“ Verena Billinger and Sebastian Schulz investigate what room there is for negotiations, playing with the proximity to the audience and exploring the boundaries of intimacy. They dedicate themselves to the pretence of the emotions that is as unrealistic and naive as it is legitimate, the hope for a happy ending to stories that, in fact, have run their course. “Both young performers cleverly satisfy the demand for authenticity.“ Sylvia Staude, Frankfurter Rundschau