based on the novel of the same name by Joachim Meyerhoff
Failing health, a noisy city, frayed nerves, and waning strength. “This can’t go on,” decides the narrator, a man in his mid-50s, in Joachim Meyerhoff’s *Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen*. He leaves Berlin and his family and moves to the countryside to stay with his mother for a while, where he plans to work on his theater novel *Scham und Bühne *. He has always had a close bond with her—a woman who is full of life and high energy, a heavy drinker and self-determined, and well over 80. And indeed, her company, working in the garden, swimming in the sea, and the whiskeys on the pier gradually restore the narrator’s mental balance. At the same time, they prompt him to recall grotesque moments from his early years as an actor.
Following her captivating production Oh, That Gap, That Horrible Gap based on the second part of Joachim Meyerhoff’s autobiographical series, director Jan Bosse and ensemble member Anne Müller now turn their attention to his latest sixth novel.
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