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More details“I can see your swollen fingers moving over the paper with a magnifying glass, slowly and intently, your breath rattling, your lungs laboring under the effort, your back so round, your legs so tired. Visitors rarely come, and it would be difficult to distinguish between several voices at once. Someone should explain to you why you understand more when you only put one of the hearing aids in your ear! And the batteries only last for such a short time that it’s hardly worth changing them. Oh, so many things are no longer worth it. …
I often see you sitting at the window when I arrive and I would give a lot to know how you really are. But ‘how can it be’ is all you mumble. I look at you – and I love you. But everything inside me is screaming: Forever young, I want to be forever young! Do you really want to live forever?’ So I definitely don’t.”
The Miser, King Lear and Uncle Vanya may have retired, but they are far from ready to retire. No, they are not finished yet. In a meeting of well-known characters from the classic canon of Molière, Shakespeare and Chekhov, director and author Rebekka David creates a humorous evening about the fear of old age and the question of why we have so few positive plans for the last stage of life in our society.