Dankbarkeiten nach dem Roman von Delphine de Vigan

In the organizer's words:

DANKBARKEITEN based on the novel by Delphine de Vigan

"Gratitudes" by French bestselling author Delphine de Vigan in its German-language premiere at Theater Mathilde Westend.

Michka, who has always led an independent life, realizes that she can no longer live alone. She constantly seems to lose important things, in fact it is words that she loses. Young Marie, who Michka once lovingly cared for when she was a child, places her in a retirement home.
There, Michka meets Jerome, a speech therapist who specializes in speech preservation for the elderly, and together they try to slow down her aphasia. But Michka is a realist and knows that she cannot defy age and decline. This makes it all the more important for her to fulfill one last wish: to express her gratitude to a couple who saved her as a young girl.

With "Gratitudes", Delphine de Vigan has written a quiet, tender chamber play, dense and touching. It is about ageing, dignity, remembering and forgetting, the dialog between generations and, of course, gratitude. Vigan lets us experience the story of Michka, Marie and Jerome with a lot of emotion, an extraordinary feel for language and the necessary pinch of humor.

In the translation by Doris Heinemann, published by DuMont Verlag
Stage version: Theresa Hanich
The actors are: Elisabeth Rass, Florian Hackspiel/Ruben Hagspiel, Theresa Hanich/Christina Matschoss
and in the video Elke Heinrich (from 20.2. Christina Matschoss can be seen in the role of Marie)
Director: Theresa Hanich
Music, technology, video editing: Philipp Hanich
Costume, stage, video: Theresa Hanich
Artistic advice: Julia Loibl
Duration: approx. 100 minutes without intermission