Trauer ist das Ding mit Federn

In the organizer's words:

Sometimes there is no rescue. Something bad happens, suddenly, unexpectedly and unfairly, too big for a single little life, and then you fall down, into the bottomless pit. Into nothingness. And everything is lost. Suddenly she is dead, a young woman, wife, lover, mother of two small children - an accident, inconspicuous and quick. And then, after all the condolences, after the lasagna and other consolations from friends and relatives, life demands to go on: everyday life, school, the book her father is working on, the children searching for support. If only there wasn't this incredible gap.

But sometimes there is salvation: suddenly a crow breaks into this wounded place, shaggy and impudent, a rampaging trickster, an unpredictable therapist who has been washed in all waters. And, for the time being, she decides to stay. Has she escaped from the book her father is writing about the famous poetry cycle Crow by the English poet Ted Hughes? Did she spring from ancient myths, childish dreams or sent by her mother? Instead of an explanation, Crow brings restlessness and love, fights illusions and depression, invents new games, quarrels and rages and fidgets and, wing flap by wing flap, conquers the hope of a future together with the devastated family.

Max Porter's debut novel is much more than a book of mourning, it is full of sparkling, wildly rampant language, it is music, it is a kiss of tongues, it is a showdown and a storm of feathers and again and again and above all a celebration of love.

Trauer ist das Ding mit Federn is the third and concluding part of Christopher Rüping's family trilogy, in which he and his respective ensemble question the construct of the family in the 21st century in three independent works - without any claim to completeness. The first part of Jean-Luc Lagarce's family trilogy Einfach das Ende der Welt was created in 2020 at Schauspielhaus Zürich, was also performed in Bochum and has been playing at Deutsches Theater Berlin since January 2024. The second part of the family trilogy Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami was created in 2022 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.

Price information:

Students of the RUB, HSG, EvH RWL, HS BO and UW/H receive free tickets for our regular performances. This is an offer in cooperation with the respective AStAs.