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Bucket List

Theater | Yael Ronen

  • Théâtre de Liège, Liège

  • Language: English and German, with French subtitles
  • 32 €, reduced: 7-29 €
  • Part of series: Anaesthesia of the Heart
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Portrait Yael Ronen © Esra Rotthoff

Portrait Yael Ronen © Esra Rotthoff https://www.gorki.de/sites/default/files/styles/large_l/public/2018-07/autorinnen_gorki_web12.jpg?itok=db5zTFvi

Yael Ronen is one of the most exciting contemporary theatre directors in Berlin. The Gorki Theatre describes her “greatest provocation: her use of dark humour in addressing historical conflicts." Together with the Théâtre de Liège, the Goethe-Institut presents her latest play, Bucket List, as part of the Anaesthesia of the Heart series. The play premiered at Berlin’s Schaubühne on 9 December 2023.
 

Bucket List Ivan Kravtsov

Bucket List Ivan Kravtsov

Bucket List Ivan Kravtsov

 
A man wakes up on a Saturday morning and finds that the world around him has changed beyond recognition. His reality has been dismantled. Everything he thought he knew and believed in seems to have been shattered. Nothing is as it was before.

He becomes a patient at a dubious start-up that is developing a new technology that allows memory and recollection to be chosen: “Zeitgeist” addresses the global market for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder by altering and erasing traumatic memories through a unique process. But until the gift of a past-free present fully unfolds, phantom memories may occur: strange collages of fragments of memories from lives lived—one's own and those of others.
In this musical hallucination about an overwhelming present, songwriter Shlomi Shaban and director Yael Ronen, together with the ensemble and a three-piece band, use music as a tool to delve into the abysses that our bodies may remember better than our forgetful brains.


Guest performances:
Invited to the Theatertreffen 2024
Gothenburg (August 2024)
Warsaw (February 2025)
Liège (December 2025)

Co-production between Schaubühne Berlin and Théâtre de Liège – with the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
Funded by the European theater network PROSPERO – Extended Theater
With the kind support of the Heinz and Heide Dürr Foundation

Yael Ronen

Born in Jerusalem in 1976, Yael Ronen is a theatre-maker who lives and works in Berlin. She first gained recognition in Tel Aviv through early productions at the Habima Theatre and others. Her international breakthrough came with "Third Generation" (2010), a co-production between the Schaubühne, the Habima Theatre and the Ruhrtriennale, bringing together actors from Germany, Israel and Palestine. From 2015 to 2023, Ronen was resident director at Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater, where she created works including "Common Ground", "Roma Armee", "The Situation" and "Slippery Slope – almost a musical", with music by Shlomi Shaban. Yael Ronen’s work has been invited to the Theatertreffen on several occasions, most recently in 2024.
 

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