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Attempt on Dying

Festival FIBA
Ende Februar 2023
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Schwankhalle Bremen
10. & 11. März 2023
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HAU - Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
15. März 2023
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Théàtre de Vidy
18. & 19. März 2022
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Università Statale de Milano
21./22. März (Lecture) 2022
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Tagung der Theologischen Fakultät Basel
15. April 2022
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National Forest Festival Thessaloniki
28. & 29. Juni 2022
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Frascati Amsterdam
08. & 09. November 2022
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Schweizer Theatertreffen
7. Mai 2021
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Festspielhaus Hellerau
25./ 26. Juni 2021
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NET Festival, Moskau
3./ 4. Dezember 2021
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Theater Freiburg
24. Januar 2020
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Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
01. Februar 2020
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Theater Münster / Festival "Denkfabrik"
25. April 2020
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Trafostation, Jena
02. Mai 2020
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Gessnerallee, Zürich
12. Juni 2020
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Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
27. Juni 2020
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National Festival of the Arts, Makhanda / South Africal
30. Juni 2020
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National Festival of the Arts, Makhanda / South Africal
1. Juli 2020
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National Festival of the Arts, Makhanda / South Africal
2. Juli 2020
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National Festival of the Arts, Makhanda / South Africal
3. Juli 2020
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Mladi Levi Festival, Ljubljana
24. August 2020
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Mladi Levi Festival, Ljubljana
25. August 2020
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Wiener Festwochen
10. September 2020
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Kaserne Basel
11. September 2019
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Kaserne Basel
14./15. September 2019
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Festival FIT Lugano
02.Oktober 2019
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Festival FETEAG, Recife
18. Oktober 2019
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Festival FETEAG, Caruaru
20. Oktober 2019
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Rio de Janeiro, Goethe Institut
25. Oktober 2019
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Frankfurt am Main, Mousonturm
01. November 2019
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München, Festival "Spielart"
04. November 2019

by and with Boris Nikitin
Production management: Annett Hardegen

Supported by: Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft.

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bz: That's theatre at its lowest point. But it is precisely in this radicalism that the pathos of this evening emerges.
SRF - Schweizer Rundfunk: The evening is very precise, but first and foremost it is also very touching.
Basler Zeitung: Three years after his father's death, the Basel theatremaker tears down the fourth wall between himself and his subjects.
 
theaterkrant.nl: A sober, raw play in which heart and head wrestle with each other. (...) It is partly these small but brilliant theatrical interventions that make Attempt on Dying not only a dramaturgically clever, but also a moving and emotional solo. You are inexorably drawn into its narrative. Nikitin manages to strike the perfect balance between authenticity and theatricality.
Volkskrant: We learn to live by dying, Nikitin seems to be telling us in this sober yet fascinating monologue.

One year after the death of his father, author and director Boris Nikitin begins to write the story of his ALS disease. The disease had made short work: it took almost a year from diagnosis to death. Very early on, the father opened the idea of considering assisted suicide, which is a legal way of dying in Switzerland. It’s a statement that changes everything.


In "Attempt on Dying" Nikitin combines the story of this outing with the story of his own coming-out as a gay man 20 years ago and develops a radical and at the same time intimate theatrical evening about what it means to take the step into the public eye, making oneself attackable and vulnerable. Nikitin's play thereby fundamentally reinterprets vulnerability from something that we normally prefer to hide from each other to an ability that arises in the act of its exposure.

D/E
  • Demons
  • Season One. 20 Years Big Brother
  • 24 frames per second
  • Swiss Propaganda-Conference
  • Attempt on Dying
  • Revolution of the vulnerable
  • It's The Real Thing '19
  • The Opposite of Things
  • don't be yourself - eight self portraits
  • Power and Vulnerability 1-8
  • Presentation of a fake sermon
  • Meet Your Enemy at the Social Muscle Club
  • Martin Luther Propagandasymposium
  • It's The Real Thing 17
  • Hamlet
  • Martin Luther Propagandapiece
  • The audition
  • Sonnet 20
  • X-Appartments Athens
  • It's The Real Thing 15 - Basel Documentary Platform
  • The Joburg Auditions
  • Sänger ohne Schatten
  • Documentation, fake, reality
  • Exit
  • Also the real thing
  • Sei Nicht Du Selbst
  • It's The Real Thing - Basel Documentary Platform 13
  • How to win friends & influence people
  • Bartleby oder Sicherheit ist ein Gefühl
  • Das Grundgesetz
  • Diese Kinder sind in Ordnung
  • Universal Export
  • The broken jar
  • Die Zeitmaschine 1980-2010
  • Woyzeck (Radioplay)
  • X- Schulen
  • Imitation of Life
  • F for Fake (after Orson Welles)
  • Woyzeck