In 1999, Falk Richter co-directed his play Nothing Hurts with Anouk van Dijk, exploring the porousness of emotions and the inability to feel passion in the contemporary era, where reality and virtuality collide.

Ten years later, in TRUST, the second work of this collaboration, the focus shifts to questions of orientation—this time in the context of the financial crisis. How does it affect our relationships? The economic crisis inevitably turns into a crisis of trust.

Richter’s characters are often wounded bodies, stranded figures. Physical aggression, collision, and crash are both endured and desired—eventually becoming a condition for happiness. But far from a demonstrative dramaturgy of incommunicability, the author allows humor to seep in.

Language: French

From the German by Anne Monfort

L’Arche
ISBN 2851817302
144 pages, paperback