This moving and fascinating work by French anthropologist and author Nastassja Martin is an autobiographical account of an incredible event and its consequences: She survived a fight with a bear in Kamchatka, seriously injured. The book, which David Fischer has brought to the stage with Bettina Marugg and Laila Nielsen, has been widely praised. The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: "Believing in the wild is a brilliant text. [...] The 140 pages hit with the force of a sharply thrown stone. Martin's language is sober and poetic [...] There is no great, redemptive realization at the end of the book. Rather, she lets us participate in her search."
The performance in Bonn is not a nature-romantic or eco-moral treatise, but poses irritating questions about the possibility of people and the environment living together in 80 highly concentrated, emotionally moving minutes. Long applause. - General-Anzeiger Bonn
Nastassja Martin reflects on what this extreme experience means, can mean. Her text takes us to the edges of our existence, into transition zones and intermediate worlds; it is touching, powerful and linguistically brilliant.
Believing in the wild
by Nastassja Martin
A production of the fringe ensemble
With Bettina Marugg, Laila Nielsen, Eduardo Serú | Director David Fischer | Room David Fischer, Eduardo Serú
Price information:
17,00 € normal ticket 9,00 € reduced ticket 23,00 € solidarity ticket