Rockaby - Schluss jetzt - Bing

In the organizer's words:

A woman sits in the rocking chair where her mother used to sit. The woman's voice comes from the tape recalling her life. She listens, closes her eyes and finally lowers her head to her chest. Samuel Beckett is the author of radical reduction. In his work, stage action is replaced by repetition, clownish forms of play or pantomime. His characters are threatened by dissolution and decay, their bodies are damaged or unable to move. Identity and memory no longer come together, body and voice no longer form a unit. In "Rockaby" from 1980, text becomes a rite of passage, a link between loss and consolation, life and death, speech and silence. Alongside the play, Ksch. Almuth Schmidt will present the prose texts "Schluss jetzt" and "Bing" by the famous playwright in a reading.
playwright in a reading.

As a teenager, music theater director Joachim Rathke saw a documentary film about the premiere of Samuel Beckett's "Rockaby" in Buffalo. Fascinated by the play, the language and the performance of the
actress, he asked for the text of the play for his 17th birthday. Since then, the play and the desire to engage with Beckett's work have been part of his life. The chamber actress
Almuth Schmidt had already admired Joachim Rathke on the Kiel stages for decades before he invented a full-length silent role for her in his production of the opera "Madame Butterfly". This collaboration gave rise to the desire to dedicate his own production to Almuth Schmidt.

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