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Death Drive: Everything Everyone Ever Did

Between wet moss and gathering storms, director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe tells of destruction as the cause of man's becoming and, suddenly slipping in and out of life, of becoming and having become.

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In the beginning there was pure chance and sheer impossibility. And yet here they are, together now in the perpetual in-between. While the world as they know it is falling apart. Six characters on the stage, dancing on the edge of the abyss, looking to escape the seemingly inescapable cycles of human existence. The seasons, atmospheric conditions are looming, in a quiet entanglement, as everything seems to turn against so-called life and certain death in four chapters. Spring, summer, autumn and winter transform into birth, life, death and reincarnation – the eternal recurrence of the same, it’s all and nothing, for all of us and none.

Amid wet moss and gathering storms, the Belgian director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe explores the force of destruction as the beginning of humanity, and tells, in a series of sudden slides into and out of the living world, the story of becoming and being.

German with english surtitles 

Trigger warning for "Death Drive: Everything Everyone Ever Did"

Please note, this piece contains:

- an explicit depiction of sexual action
- strobe-like lighting
- fog
- gun and pistol shots

With: Kathrin Angerer, Susanne Bredehöft, Inga Busch, Benny Claessens, Steven Fast, Kyle PatrickBeat 'n Blow: Lukas Fröhlich, Enno Kuck, Stefan Pahlke, Bernhard Ullrich, Jörg Vollerthun, Niko Zeidler

Director: Benjamin Abel MeirhaegheStage & lighting design: Bart Van Merode, Zaza DupontCostumes: Marilena BüldArranger: Ward OpsteynSound design: Bully Fae CollinsDramaturgy: Leonie Hahn

Artists/Collaborators: Volksbühne Berlin

Runtime: Sun, 01/12/2024 to Sun, 01/12/2024

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