Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
Bucket List, Photo: © Ivan Kravtsov, 2023 
 

Bucket List

by Yael Ronen & Shlomi Shaban
Director: Yael Ronen
Songwriting und Composition: Shlomi Shaban
World Premiere

Stage B

12/09/2023, 20.00–21.15
In German and English with German and English surtitles and additional mobile surtitles in French

A man wakes up on a Saturday morning, and the world around him has changed beyond recognition. His reality is shattered. What he believed to know has completely disintegrated. Nothing is what it used to be. 

In his despair, he turns to a shady start-up that is developing cutting-edge technology. It allows the patient to choose what to remember: »Zeitgeist« addresses the global market for PTSD treatment with a unique procedure that alters and erases the traumatic memory itself. But until the amenities of a trauma-free present can be enjoyed, some phantom memories might haunt the patient's thoughts - a strange collage of broken plots. 

»Bucket List« is a musical hallucination about an overwhelming reality. Songwriter Shlomi Shaban and director Yael Ronen, along with the ensemble and a three-piece band, use music to penetrate abysses that our bodies may remember better than our forgetful brains.

 

Director: Yael Ronen
Songwriting and Compositon: Shlomi Shaban
Stage Design: Magda Willi
Costume Design: Amit Epstein
Composition and music direction: Yaniv Fridel, Ofer (OJ) Shabi
Video: Stefano Di Buduo
Dramaturgy: Irina Szodruch, Martín Valdés-Stauber
Lighting Design: Erich Schneider
Vocalcoach: Till Josa Paar
With: Moritz Gottwald, Carolin Haupt, Damian Rebgetz, Ruth Rosenfeld
Live music: Thomas Moked Blum, Amir Bresler, Hila Kulik/Shatzky
Duration: ca. 75 minutes

Premiered on 9 December 2023

Tour Dates

Invited to the Theatertreffen 2024
Gothenborg (August 2024)
Warsaw (September 2024)
Zagreb (January 2025)

Coproduction by Théâtre de Liège - with the support of Wallonia-Brussels International

Supported by the European theater network PROSPERO – Extended Theatre
Kindly supported by the Heinz and Heide Dürr Foundation
Kindly supported by Goethe Institute

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