DER NAME

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By Jon Fosse | German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel

This family reunion is a madhouse of uneventfulness. Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature and recent recipient of the Ludwig Mülheim Theater Prize for his life's work, has written perhaps his best play with THE NAME: After a long time, a girl returns home to the family circle. She is heavily pregnant, the situation is precarious and explosive. She is accompanied by the child's future father, whom no one here knows yet. The mother is ill, the father is taciturn and exhausted, and the sister is looking for someone to play with. Nobody, absolutely nobody, thinks to ask the girl what her boyfriend's name is. He would prefer to be invisible, withdraws into a corner and reads a book. There is violence in the air. And then - nothing happens. Apparently nothing. Because there is silence. And Jon Fosse is its greatest magician. The silence rumbles until everyone speaks to each other again - but do they understand each other? Shouldn't they, as Georg Büchner once suggested, "crack open their skullcaps and pull their thoughts out of each other's brain fibers"? When language fails: what does it mean to be a human being in society? Kay Voges blends wild poetic simplicity and abysmal humor into a finely composed score.