Die Mondreise

One woman flies to the moon to search for what she has lost on Earth: her sanity, her work, herself. “What you have lost here on Earth / will be found up there on the moon,” wrote Ludovico Ariosto around 1500, imagining the Earth’s satellite as a kind of dumping ground. Among craters and ruins, strange objects gather: glowing eyes, magical apples, and jade rabbits.

This cosmic journey is also an inner journey, and every self-conversation contains a dialogue. Is what she is looking for really hidden on the moon? Will she ever find her way back? Long shadows and harsh light blur perception until up and down, front and back, lose their meaning.

From the encounter between local theatre makers and the Republikanisches Akademisches Deutsches Dramatisches Theater in Almaty, a piece emerges about what gets lost in translation and what can arise in between.