Nobody Is Home

In the organizer's words:

by Liza Magtoto & EnsembleIn English, German and Tagalese with German surtitles

What if your own father or mother suddenly needs care - and you realize that you can't manage without outside help? When you are suddenly one of the many who are looking for a loving and competent caregiver for their loved ones and realize that the need is beyond all limits? The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) in Manila and the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater in Schwerin are jointly developing a play that deals with a topic that concerns and affects us all: care. Nobody Is Home traces the global connections between the care crisis and care migration in the construct of a family. The focus is on women who could not be more different: One of them is unable to care for her parents herself. The other leaves her home and her children to work abroad as a carer. Ultimately, however, both women are united by the fact that they are part of a global phenomenon in the late capitalist age, in which no one is where she would actually like to be: at home. The theater evening is a collaboration between directors J-mee Katanyag and Nina Gühlstorff with actors from Manila and Schwerin in both locations.

In cooperation with the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

What if your own father or mother is suddenly in need of care - and you realize that you can't cope without outside help? What if you are suddenly one of the many who are looking for a loving and skilled caregiver for their loved ones and realize that the need is beyond all limits? The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) in Manila and the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater in Schwerin are jointly developing a play that deals with a topic that concerns and affects us all: care. Nobody Is Home traces the global connections between the care crisis and care migration in the construct of a family. The focus is on women who could not be more different: One of them is unable to care for her parents herself. The other leaves her home and her children to work abroad as a carer. Ultimately, however, both women are united by the fact that they are part of a global phenomenon in the late capitalist age, in which no one is where she would actually like to be: at home. The theater evening is a collaboration between directors J-mee Katanyag and Nina Gühlstorff with actors from Manila and Schwerin in both locations.