Internationales Theater Frankfurt

1. ice cream, 2. water fights, 3. being allowed to stay up longer than usual and watching TV... After her mother's first suicide attempt*, a seven-year-old starts writing a list - with all the good things worth living for. She hopes that her mother will really read the list (and not just correct the spelling mistakes), that her depression will stop and that life will go on. And it does. But not everything automatically gets better. Not now, not even later, when she herself is an adult. There is always a strange sadness lurking there. Only the list has grown over the years and is approaching a million: 999,997. The alphabet, 999,998. Inappropriate songs in emotional moments, 999,999. Completing a task ...

All das Schöne is a charming, slightly melancholy and melancholically light, always hilarious text about a serious subject. Emotional but never maudlin, Duncan Macmillan guides us through a life full of ups and downs that leaves scars but always remains worth living: "It gets better. Not necessarily always absolutely beautiful. But better." - 1.000.000 ...

Production by Christoph Bangerter; actress: Antonia Welke. In collaboration with experts in suicide prevention.
Immediately following the premiere, there will be an expert panel led by Prof. Dr. Ute Lewitzka. Prof. Lewitzka is the holder of Germany's first professorship for suicidology and suicide prevention at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Photo: Mark Normanne

16.+ 24.1., both 8 pm & 25.1., 6 pm

Internationales Theater Frankfurt, Hanauer Landstr. 5-7, Frankfurt

2for1: 27 € (free choice of seats)

On the day of the event, up to half an hour before the start, box office