A play about disappearance and loss.
Concept, text, direction by Helgard Haug (Rimini Protokoll).
Translated by Lyz Pfister. Music by Barbara Morgenstern.
A production of Rimini Apparat. In co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Volkstheater Wien, The Factory Manchester, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, PACT Zollverein.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds as well as Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
Performing rights: schaefersphilippen Theater and Medien GbR.
In the spring of 2014,
the father gets on a plane.
A Boeing 777.
A big machine.
He’s one of 239 people
from 14 countries on board.
“An international mix of nationalities.”
Often, a differentiation is made between
the 12 flight crew and 227 passengers.
The one group wears comfortable clothes,
the other a uniform.
The one group mainly sits,
the other paces the aisles.
Pushing something,
carrying something.
Sometimes they stand
and demonstrate
what to do in the case of cases—
an emergency.
Turbulence.
Loss of...