8 November | 16:00 – I. L. Caragiale National Theater Bucharest, Media Hall
FREE ADMISSION (limited places available)
God tackles the topic of medically assisted suicide, on the background of the legal context in the Federal Republic of Germany.
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
Translation from German by: Ciprian Marinescu
Cast:
Virgil Aioanei, Bogdan Albulescu, Elvira Deatcu, Alexandrica Halic, Rodica Lazar, Ana Ioana Macaria, Conrad Mericoffer, Mihaela Sârbu
Directed by: Bobi Pricop
Producer: The National Theater Festival 2022
With the support of: Goethe-Institut Bucharest
Duration: 1h 20
Performative reading follower by a Q&A session with the audience.
78 year old Herta Gärtner, a physically and mentally healthy woman, does not want to live anymore since her husband died. She requests a drug to commit suicide. Doctors, lawyers, priests, ethics specialists, the state and society doubt they can help her. The Ethics Commission discusses the case.
In this new play, Ferdinand von Schirach basically negotiates human death. And, just as in his first play, Terror, each of us needs to give a sentence in the end. Whom does our life belong to? Who gets to decide about death? Who are we? And who do we want to be?