Amsterdam

In the organizer's words:

Amsterdam (DSE) by Maya Arad Yasur, German by Matthias Naumann directed by Sapir Heller.

The protagonist of Maya Arad Yasur's play, a pregnant Israeli violinist living in Amsterdam, finds an unpaid gas bill from 1944 on her doorstep one morning. Within the next 24 hours, she tries to find out who, as the actual recipient, is behind the mysterious gas bill. Her research leads her deep into the historical events that took place in her apartment building during the Holocaust. In the course of her investigations, Amsterdam's supposedly open, multicultural society appears increasingly hostile, and she herself suddenly seems a stranger in the surroundings she had been familiar with until then. In Maya Arad Yasur's text, different voices reconstruct and speculate about what might really have happened, complementing, contradicting, and interfering with each other in an attempt to develop a common reading of the story. In a humorous and sophisticated way, the author points out the blind spots of modern metropolitan societies and shows how history and the reappraisal of history continue to have an impact on our present.

The play "Amsterdam" by the Israeli author Maya Arad Yasur won the work commission of the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2018 and will be shown as a German-language premiere directed by Sapir Heller at the Volkstheater.

Further information and tickets at: https://www.muenchner-volkstheater.de/programm/schauspiel/amsterdam-dse