12 – 14 JAN 2024 From Friday to Saturday at 20:00 Matinee: 14 JAN 2024 at 12:00 pm Show in German with Spanish surtitles.
Functions accessible to people with hearing disabilities (surtitles) every day.
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Milo Rau and Ursina Lardi
Milo Rau
Carmen Hornbostel and Christian Tschirner
Helga Bedau and Ursina Lardi
Anton Lukas
Erich Schneider
Jens Baudisch
Moritz von Dungern
Carmen Hornbostel
Ottavia Castelotti
Team SOPA
Schaubühne Berlin
Salzburger Festspiele
Georg Arms, Irina Arms, Jochen Arms, Julia Bürki, Keziah Bürki, SamuelBürki, Achim Heinecke, Lisa Heineche
Synopsis
What is important at the end of our lives? What remains? In Everywoman, a successful actress meets a woman who has been diagnosed with a lethal disease and whose last wish is to perform one last time in a play. Based on the allegorical morality play Jedermann, about a righteous way of life and redemption through faith, an intimate conversation takes place about the past and the future, about life, death, loneliness and community.
Director’s Note
In 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a woman writes to an actress: she does not have long to live and regrets not being able to go to the theatre any more, although she would have loved to go on stage herself. Some time later, Ursina Lardi and Milo Rau went to see Helga Bedau at her home in Berlin and filmed her. In response to her last wishes, the former teacher is transported to the stage, in a piece in which Ursina Lardi engages in dialogue with her through recordings. Death, of course, is at the centre of the conversation. This approach, which draws on the experiences of the two women to prompt us to question the finitude of our lives, is both philosophical and personal. As a counterpoint to Jedermann (Everyman), Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s allegorical piece based on the death of a man, Everywoman questions, in a very tangible way, the essence of life, but also the ritual of theatre as a collective practice. What if death is only acceptable from the moment we are no longer alone?
Milo Rau
Milo Rau and Ursina Lardi
Milo Rau
Carmen Hornbostel and Christian Tschirner
Helga Bedau and Ursina Lardi
Anton Lukas
Erich Schneider
Jens Baudisch
Moritz von Dungern
Carmen Hornbostel
Ottavia Castelotti
Team SOPA
Schaubühne Berlin
Salzburger Festspiele
Georg Arms, Irina Arms, Jochen Arms, Julia Bürki, Keziah Bürki, SamuelBürki, Achim Heinecke, Lisa Heineche
He was born in Samedan (Switzerland) in 1970. He has been a member of the Schaubühne since the 2012/2013 season. He studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin. He has performed numerous works at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Schauspiel Hannover, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Berliner Ensemble and the Sophiensaele Berlin.
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In film and television, he has produced numerous works, including the award-winning The White Ribbon (Direction: Michael Haneke, 2009), Lore (Direction: Cate Shortland, 2011), The Lies of the Victors (Direction: Christoph Hochhäusler, 2014), Sag mir nichts (Direction: Andreas Kleinert, 2016), Im Nirgendwo (Direction: Katalin Gödrös, 2016), Sans Merci (Direction: Lionel Baier, 2017) and Der namenlose Tag (Direction: Volker Schlöndorff, 2017).
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He received the Eliette-von-Karajan-Kulturfond prize (2006), the Palme d’Or at Cannes (2009) and the Golden Globe (2010) for The White Ribbon and the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress for Traumland (Direction: Petra Volpe) in 2014. For Unter der Haut she was nominated as the best actress for the Swiss film prize. She was guest of honour at the Solothurner Filmtage in 2016.
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Milo Rau (1977, Bern) studied sociology, German and Romance languages in Zurich, Berlin and Paris with Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov, among others. Since 2002, he has created more than 50 plays, films, books and actions that have been presented at major international festivals such as Berlin’s Theatertreffen, the Festival d’Avignon, the Biennale Teatro di Venezia, the Wiener Festwochen and the Kunstenfestival in Brussels, and have toured to more than 30 countries around the world. In 2007, he founded the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM).
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Rau was recently awarded the Saarbrücken Chair of Dramatic Poetics 2017 and the ITI World Theatre Day Award 2016. After theatre artists such as Frank Castorf, Pina Bausch, George Tabori, Heiner Goebbels and Christoph Marthaler, Rau is the youngest recipient of this renowned theatre prize to date. Five Easy Pieces was the first non-national production to be awarded the Special Jury Prize of the Belgian Theatre Critics in 2016 and has been invited to the Theatertreffen Berlin in 2017.
Since the 2018/19 season he has been artistic director of NTGent.
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