All das Schöne

In the organizer's words:

by Duncan Macmillan

Collaboration Jonny Donahoe

German by Corinna Brocher

at the Theatertreff

How does a child react to his mother's suicide attempt? He writes her a list of everything that is nice about the world: 1. ice cream, 2. water fights, 3. being allowed to stay up longer than usual and watching TV, 4. the color yellow ...

The child hopes that the 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, and not even when the child is grown up.

Duncan Macmillan (*1980) has written a life-affirming monologue about the deadly serious subject of depression, completely unsentimental and even funny. Written as a son's account of dealing with the suicide of his own mother, the play tells us a lot about our current times: what do we miss in states of emergency, who or what do we have to say goodbye to in the future, and what counts?

say goodbye to in the future, and what are the good things in our lives? What would you put on the list?