We have now had the great good fortune to watch the dress rehearsal of this extraordinary play, before it is put on ice for better times, currently hoped for in March 2021.
"Rückkehr nach Reims" grapples with the subject of homophobia, with the social violence of relations of exploitation, and with the phenomenon of populism.
An explosive subject, a politically minded director:
Thomas Ostermeier's stage adaptation of Didier Eribon's autobiographical account premiered in 2017. The book, Ostermeier said at the time, had once again made plain to him the power of "social violence", and we feel that, with the new cast, the aspect of the violence of an everyday and, in part, unconscious racism, meant harmlessly, is brought into sharp relief.
Back then, Nina Hoss was one of the three people on stage; this time the play is rounded off by Isabelle Redfern's personal life story, the relevant part of which she wrote herself, and in which she also gives her own father in the southern United States a voice through a self-filmed video.
We wish the Berlin Schaubühne and this impressive ensemble better times and many spectators.