A sensitive and stirring theatre piece about depression

How do you react as a seven-year-old child to a suicide attempt by your mother? You try to cheer her up, to convince her that there are many things worth living for. The best way to do this is to write a list: it starts with 1. ice cream, 2. water fights and continues to grow in the various phases of life - initially so as not to lose heart, later because of the overwhelming feeling of first love. The childish project has already become a constant drive in life that doesn't even stop at the number 10,000.

Depression is part of our everyday lives and has many facets - it is never funny. This makes it all the more astonishing that the Brit Duncan Macmillan has managed to write a stunningly funny, sensitive and stirring play about this subject. The constant preoccupation with the deadly serious subject leads to the exact opposite - we experience a passionate plea for why it is absolutely worth living.

Performing: Katja Klemt, Director: Anja Dechant, Set: Ruth Pulgram

by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, translated from the English by Corinna Brocher
Performance rights with Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Hamburg
A co-production of Naturbühne Trebgast and Katja Klemt
Performance rights with Rowohlt-Theaterverlag