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Attempt on Dying

Théàtre de Vidy
18. & 19. März 2022
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National Forest Festival Thessaloniki
28. & 29. Juni 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
weitere Aufführungen…
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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.

><Presse
 
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.
 

A suicide assistant from EXIT once told me - it was at the organization’s booth at a science fair in Basel - that the fewest people who come to EXIT with their suicide thoughts make use of the „service“ in the end.
Most of them die from their disease in a „natural way“.
However: all who meet her for a first consultation and who most probably for the first time express their thoughts of maybe not wanting or not being able to live any longer, all of them share afterwards one same state: 

relief.
relief of just having surmounted the probably most extrem tabu.
To say: I don't want it anymore. 

What an achievement, i thought, that a society is creating an institution in which a person is enabled to not only think about it but also express this thought. And maybe for the first time  doesn’t have to live but can actually chose to live - and be it only for a few weeks or even just a few days.
Where life suddenly is not an unavoidability anymore but is becoming a possibility.

I left the EXIT booth very excited thinking that this was some sort of a social revolution. 

Learning to live by learning to die.

D/E
  • 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
  • Sonnett 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