Anna Gillis

Hollywood, glamour, seduction: Mara becomes a star in the game «Daddy». But the deeper she immerses herself in the dazzling dream world, the more the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred. Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre transform the stage into a virtual playing field and expose the promises and abysses of the digital world.

With her silent protest in front of the Swedish parliament building in 2018, Greta Thunberg, then 15 years old, initiated a global movement. Students and young adults have been organizing Fridays for Future strikes for three years now, demonstrating for a better future and against inaction in the face of a climate catastrophe that is already taking place.

What happens with dementia and how can we deal with this phenomenon? Director Anna Karasińska and journalist Jürgen Berger explore the disease in a poetic evening of theatre that highlights the fragility of human existence and our basic assumptions of identity. Their search for clues leads them to a dementia village in Thailand, where care is provided in a completely different way to that in German care homes.