markus&markustheaterkollektiv: Ibsen: Gespenster – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin

markus&markustheaterkollektiv: Ibsen: Gespenster

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Is there a fundamental right to choose to die? In Ibsen’s drama the protagonist Osvald asks his mother to help him with his euthanasia – she is completely torn. In 2014 the group spent 18 months with 81 year-old Margot and accompanied her to Switzerland where she, with the assistance of an organization, put an end to her own life. A controversial discourse clashes together with a drama whose protagonist is already dead: on stage there is only the performer and the documentation of this particular encounter left over.

BY AND WITH Markus&Markus (Katarina Eckold, Lara-Joy Hamann, Manuela Pirozzi, Markus Schäfer, Markus Wenzel) GUEST Margot

A production by Markus&Markus in coproduction with Gessnerallee Zurich, ROXY Birsfelden and Mousonturm Frankfurt. Funded by the city of Zurich, canton Zurich, Migros-Kulturprozent, Fondation Nestlé pour l’art, Ernst-Göhner Foundation and the Fachausschuss Theater und Tanz BS/BL. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung

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Lara-Joy Bues, Katarina Eckold, Markus Schäfer and Markus Schmans have been working together as markus&markustheaterkollektiv since 2012. Their work is characterised by intensive research, the results of which — captured on video — form an elementary building block of their productions. They do not speak about a subject, but from within it. The people who are directly affected by the subject at hand are given a voice: their protagonists. Their work has been recognised with the George Tabori Award and the Best-Off Festival Prize of the Stiftung Niedersachsen.

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