All das Schöne - Wiederaufnahme

In the organizer's words:

SCHAUSPIEL

Theater am Goetheplatz

by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Director: Klaus Schumacher
Acted by: Susanne Schrader

How do you react as a child to your mother's suicide attempt? You write her a list of everything that's nice about the world: 1. ice cream, 2. water fights, 3. being allowed to stay up late and watch TV, 4. the color yellow ... You hope that your mother will really read the list (and not just correct the spelling mistakes), that her depression will end and life will go on. And it does. But not everything automatically gets better. Not now, not later, when you yourself are grown up, in love and perhaps even thinking about having children of your own. There is always a strange sadness lurking, there are crashes, embarrassing situations and injuries. Only the list has grown over the years and is approaching a million: 999,997. the alphabet, 999,998. inappropriate songs in emotional moments, 999,999. completing a task ...
Duncan Macmillan has written "a life-affirming monologue on a deadly serious subject, ravishing, heartbreaking and wholly unsentimental ... All the Beauty is even a staggeringly funny play about depression - and possibly one of the funniest plays ever" (The Guardian). Involving the audience in minor roles throughout, Macmillan "light-handedly transforms supposed bugbears into strokes of luck" (The New York Times) and "strikes the perfect balance between what makes you despair about life and what makes it so wonderful" (The Independent).