All right. Good night.

A play about disappearance and loss
By Helgard Haug

With the radio message "All right. Good night." the pilot of Malaysia Airlines MH370 is said to have said goodbye as he passed from one flight control zone to another before all trace of the plane was lost. On March 8, 2014, the Boeing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members took off from Kuala Lumpur for its destination in Beijing: an unspectacular routine for 39 minutes and 13 seconds. Then the plane disappeared from radar. Its disappearance has been described as one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time - because it seems incredible that something so big could go missing.
At the same time, the author's father writes four happy birthday letters to his grandson. The contents are almost identical; each envelope is franked with a special stamp. A year later there is no card at all, the birthday has probably been forgotten and at some point this forgetfulness is given a name and becomes a diagnosis: dementia. First the name of the grandchild is forgotten, then the fact that there is one and finally the certainty about your own person.

The author combines her own experience with the grieving process of the bereaved. And both events prove to be of exemplary relevance, typical of contemporary society. This outstanding play traces the struggle with uncertainty, touches and enlightens and is also an exceptionally fine father story.

Helgard Haug (* 1969 in Sindelfingen) is a German author and director. She is also a co-founder of the Rimini Protokoll collective. She lives in Berlin.

With: Rino Hosennen, Hannah Im Hof, Linda Schlepps, Luca Zahn.

Video + sound: Carola Schwelien, Bernhard Hurm
Direction, stage & costume: Claudia Rüll Calame-Rosset
Music: Thomas Unruh

A guest performance by Theater Lindenhof