Wer bremst, bleibt
Theatre

By Silvan Rechsteiner

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  • Szene aus - Wer bremst, bleibt
    © Ingo Höhn
  • Szene aus - Wer bremst, bleibt
    © Ingo Höhn
  • Szene aus - Wer bremst, bleibt
    © Ingo Höhn
  • Szene aus - Wer bremst, bleibt
    © Ingo Höhn

  • World premiere
  • Approx. 1 hour 5 minutes without a break
  • Interesting for people aged 12+

The switches and confusion of a train conductor

Bruno wants to become an actor. The careers counsellor advises him to join the railway. Three years later, he is passionately checking brakes, checking tickets and speaking through the loudspeakers late at night: «This is what I want!» But between the eternally same railway stations, Bruno always encounters the same pale faces travelling through with their fates in their luggage. Who is Bruno travelling with? Has Bruno landed on the wrong stage? Silvan Rechsteiner, himself a former train conductor and in-house playwright at Theater Basel in the 23/24 season, wrote the play. Director Patricija Katica Bronić sets the course for a melancholy, funny and touching evening.

The production was realized as part of the Stück Labor funding program.

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Mediathek

This is a refreshingly unusual take on the autofictional genre: for once, no one is discussing their own origins or sexuality in terms of identity politics. Instead, it deals with a question that affects everyone: the question of career choice.
BZ Basel
A bright, loud and very strange world unfolds on the small stage of Theater Basel. [...] The play maintains a balance between the reproduction of concrete reality and fantasy scenes. [...] The result is a picture story with overdrawn caricatures. 
bajour
With a subtle mixture of sharp-witted humor and thoughtful seriousness, the audience is taken on a personal and at the same time universal journey.
SEV Gewerkschaft des Verkehrspersonals

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