All das Schöne - Ein Monolog von Duncan MacMillan mit Björn Luithardt
Red Castle / A monologue by Duncan MacMillan with Björn Luithardt
1. Ice cream, 2. Water fights, 3. Staying up later, 4. The color yellow. This is how the list begins that the narrator has written for his sick mother. A list of all the things worth living for. A touching, sad, and funny piece about depression, questions that cannot be answered, and how people can influence each other – or not.
How does a child react to their mother’s suicide attempt? They write her a list of everything beautiful about the world: 1. Ice cream, 2. Water fights, 3. Staying up later than usual and watching TV, 4. The color yellow … They hope that the mother really reads the list (and doesn’t just correct the spelling mistakes), that her depression will end, and that life will go on. And it does. But not everything gets automatically better. Not now, not later, when one is grown up, in love, and perhaps even thinking about having children of one’s own. There’s a strange sadness lurking again and again, there are crashes, embarrassing situations, and injuries. Only the list has grown over the years and is approaching one million: 999.997. The alphabet, 999.998. Inappropriate songs in emotional moments, 999.999. Completing a task …
Duncan Macmillan has "written anaffirmative monologue on a deadly serious subject, charming, heartwarming, and entirely unsentimental ... All das Schöne is even an astonishingly funny play about depression – and perhaps one of the funniest plays ever" (The Guardian). Incorporating the audience, which must continuously take on smaller roles, "Macmillan lightly transforms supposed bogeymen into happy occurrences" (The New York Times) and "finds the perfect balance between what makes one despair of life and what makes it so wonderful" (The Independent).
© Jan D. Engelhardt
Doors open 30 minutes before the performance starts
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