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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.