All of it
2024 \ theatre play \ State Theatre Cottbus \ German Premiere
Text Alistair McDowall (German translation by John Birke) Director Rafael Ossami Saidy Set, costume, video designer Susanne Brendel Music Simon Kluth Dramaturg Franziska Benack with Sophie Bock, Nathalie Schörken, Lucie Luise Thiede, Susann Thiede Assistant director Elisa Freigang String quartet for musical recordings (members of the philharmonic orchestra) Anja Velea, Jana Jannaschk, Uwe Jannaschk, Dan Constantin Velea
A whole life in fast-forward. With ALLES (All of it), Alistair McDowall has created a text that literally follows the path of its protagonist from the cradle to the grave.
In the German-language premiere, this text comes to life in the backstage area of the theater. Walking through the theater, struggling, pushing, wandering, discovering, and wafting on, the text here becomes the basis for the passage of a life. From birth to death, from the canteen to the big stage, the theater makes the stages of a life tangible, with the means of the theater in all places of the theater.
Press rewievs:
F.A.Z.
„In some moments [...] you can only hear her from a distance, but a few stairs, rooms and corridors later you are right in front of her again. This play of proximity and distance makes the intimacy of the text all the more powerful. [...] The very different character of the rooms (set design: Susanne Brendel) also allows different accents of the text to emerge. [...]. The first room seems strange and abstract [...] The theater dressing room, on the other hand, is obsessed with detail [...] Other rooms are driven into the symbolically grotesque.“
(02.02.2024, Christoph Weissermel)
Die Deutsche Bühne
"[...] For one hundred and ten minutes, it is all about those little episodes that are everything in the end. [...] - intimate world theater."
(29.01.2024, Gunnar Decker)
Lausitzer Rundschau
"Cottbus has long longed for such a moving theater experience"
(27.01.2024, Ida Kretzschmar)
Photos © Bernd Schönberger