Der Abschiedsbrief

Leave everything behind without writing a farewell letter? That's exactly what Julien had planned, the noose already around her neck, but then Maud unexpectedly comes home early. The two have been married for 30 years, Julien is a psychoanalyst, Maud a pianist. Now the two are taking stock for one night - about their lives and their love. Angry, passionate, witty, they wrestle with each other and with the big questions of life. Childhood memories are mixed with intimate confessions, radical questions of meaning and ruthless reckoning. A night to leave each other for good or to fall in love with each other all over again.

The new play La Note (original title, translated as "The Farewell Letter") by French author Audrey Schebat brings relevant social issues to the theatre stage: the married couple relationship in all its complexity, mutual dependencies and expectations, a failed suicide attempt and its consequences. The Farewell Letter is a tragicomic chamber play with two equal, complex, psychological roles, ups and downs as well as humorous and relentless scenes.

"We have better things to do than stay like us"

The courageous departure of a married couple in the third stage of their lives into an unknown future.


by Audrey Schebat

with Tonia Maria Zindel and Andrea Zogg

and the voices of Julia Jentsch and Ewa Früh

Director: Peter Niklaus Steiner

Duration of the performance: 125 minutes (incl. intermission)