Amsterdam

All you wanted to do was frying two eggs. But why isn't the gas stove working? There's a knock at the door, and a letter is lying on the floor. An unpaid gas bill. From 1944. Annoying, but also mysterious. The recipient of the strange letter is an Israeli violinist living in Amsterdam. Over the next 24 hours, she tries to unravel the story behind the historical debt. In doing so, she not only delves deep into the past events that took place in her apartment building during the Holocaust, but is also confronted with questions about her own identity, origins and position in society.

With ease, wit and poetry, Israeli author Maya Arad Yasur exposes the double standards of the supposedly liberal metropolis in her polyphonic text and questions the conventional narratives of historiography.

Sapir Heller's German-language premiere was a huge success at the Munich Volkstheater and is now being performed with a new cast at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.