HUNDERT JAHRE WEINEN ODER HUNDERT BOMBEN WERFEN
Play by Darja Stocker and Mohamedali Ltaief
Theater Basel. 2019
Reto” has been an outcast all his life. From early childhood, he is continually being sent away: from his father in Basel to his mother in Geneva, as a child labourer from one farm to the next. In his search for affection and recognition, he is repeatedly degraded and humiliated. Eventually, he finds himself on a ship from Marseille to Algiers, going to war as a mercenary and trying his luck in the Foreign Legion. The Legion suggests togetherness and security but at the same time, it means constantly living in fear. Finally, Reto is called to account in a court trial and is forced to look back on his life of torment.
