SCHAUSPIEL

Theater am Goetheplatz

by Nino Haratischwili
Stage version by Emilia Linda Heinrich, Julia Lochte and Jette Steckel
Director: Alize Zandwijk

Nino Haratischwili begins her five-generation epic in the house of the wealthy chocolate manufacturer family Jaschi in Tbilisi in 1900, at the time of the Russian Tsarist Empire. All doors seem to be open to the daughters Stasia and Christine, but then the First World War and the Russian Revolution break into their lives. Niza, Stasia's great-granddaughter, who emigrates to Berlin, tells the great family story to her niece Brilka in the hope that she can break the family's pattern of violence.

In eight chapters, named after the respective main characters - seven women and one man - a tableau emerges, a continuity of experience up to the fall of the Soviet Union and into the 21st century. "The Eighth Life" is a chronicle of upheavals, tragedies and moments of happiness, told from the perspective of those who cannot be found in the history books.