- 01.11.2019, 20 p.m.€ 12 / red. € 6
In 2017, a year after his father’s death, author and director Boris Nikitin begins writing the story of the father’s ALS illness. The disease was a short process: from the diagnosis to his death it takes less than a year. Very early, the father opens the thought of considering an assisted suicide, an EXIT. A statement that changes everything. In “Attempt on Dying”, Nikitin combines the story of this outing with the story of his own coming-out 20 years ago and develops it into a theatrical evening about what it means to make the step into the public eye and make oneself vulnerable and vulnerable. “Attempt on Dying” is a play about the gaze of the others and about the utopia of a vulnerability that is not a lack of being human, but a revolutionary ability.
Duration: ca. 50 Min.
Language: Deutsch
Cast & Credits
Text, Performance: Boris Nikitin
Production: Annett Hardegen
A Co-production with Kaserne Basel and Gessnerallee Zürich. In Cooperation with FIT Lugano, FETEAG and Spielart München. Supported by the Dance and Theatre Committee of the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft. The piece is part of the projects realised through the three-year funding.
Biography
Boris Nikitin
Boris Nikitin is a theatre director, author, curator and essayist. In his plays, texts and festivals, he has been exploring the boundaries between documentation, propaganda and fake and the subsequent constructions of reality and identity since 2007. Since 2016, Nikitin has also increasingly turned his attention to the relationship between art and illness. “Like few others, Boris Nikitin pushes theatre to a critical edge,” writes Theater heute. In 2017, Nikitin was awarded the J.M.R. Lenz – Dramatikerpreis for his complete works, and in 2020 he received the Swiss Theatre Prize. Nikitin’s works have been invited to the Impulse Theater Festival four times and he is a regular guest at Mousonturm, most recently with his solo piece “Attempt on Dying”. The thoughts formulated in this play on the subject of coming-out form the basis for Nikitin’s contribution to the publication “Learning from the Lockdown”.
