Das letzte Feuer

In the organizer's words:

It's midsummer, a day in August in a nondescript suburb: a policewoman is chasing a speeding driver. Then comes the shock: an eight-year-old boy runs out in front of her car. The fateful moment of his death causes eruptions in several lives: the policewoman, the grieving parents, the grandmother suffering from dementia, the drugged-up speeding driver and his friend, the car owner and a mysterious stranger who is the only witness. Invisibly connected by the event, they trace guilt and atonement, hold on to each other, put everything at risk. The hope of redemption never fades.

With empathy and dramatic finesse, Dea Loher tells of people whose struggles and will to live go to the heart, who amaze and puzzle us. In 2008, "Das letzte Feuer" was named "Play of the Year" by the magazine "Theater heute" and won the Mülheim Dramatist Prize in the same year. Theater director Marlene Anna Schäfer, who recently proved her flair for contemporary theater texts with the world premiere of "Madonnen", is staging this universal and touching work.