A group of musicians perform onstage with instruments; German text on the image reads: “Was einmal weg ist, ist weg,” sagen die Neurologen. The stage is dimly lit with scattered objects in the foreground.

Prep School: All Right. Good Night.

Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel founded the theatre-label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have since worked in different constellations under this name. Work by work they have expanded the means of the theatre to create new perspectives on reality. Learn more about the company.

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INDEFINITE ARTICLE

Nisha Sajnani on All Right. Good Night.

Theatre, like therapy, does not erase loss but helps us carry it.

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A stage set like a beach with scattered chairs, umbrellas, and beach toys. Several people lounge or sit. The backdrop shows a sunset over the sea with German text: “Haltet Kontakt. Verzeiht.”.

OFFICE HOURS

GET INTO IT

Take a look at the trailer for All Right. Good Night.

GET THEE TO THE LIBRARY

Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.

  • Marvin Carlson. Shattering Hamlet’s Mirror: Theatre and Reality. University of Michigan Press, 2016.
  • Miriam Dreysse Passos de Carvalho and Florian Malzacher, editors. Experts of the Everyday: The Theatre of Rimini Protokoll. Alexander Verslag, 2008. 
  • Kasia Lech. Multilingual Dramaturgies: Towards New European Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
  • Kara McKechnie. Instance: Rimini Protokoll. Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
  • Avra Sidiropoulou. Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis. Taylor & Francis, 2022. 

All Right. Good Night. by Helgard Haug

Helgard Haug has also published an adaptation or revision of the play in the form of a novel – currently available to purchase in German – which offers an opportunity to experience the work in a more intimate format, & in your own time. You can hear more about her take on genre distinctions in her Office Hours interview with Elizabeth Menninger.

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Book titled “All Right. Good Night. Roman” by Helgard Haug, featuring a cover with a photograph of a cloudy blue sky and a white vertical streak, set against a minimal, pale background.

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Helgard Haug by Evan Hill

Helgard’s work reminds us that though each loss is singular and uniquely perplexing, the universal need for resolution binds us together at the edge of unknown depths, where our questions ring out in collective fragility.

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Unsolved Mysteries

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, an international passenger flight with 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The cause of the flight’s disappearance remain a mystery, despite millions spent on years of investigation (amateur and professional). Learn more about the flight, the investigation, and some of the theories around its disappearance.

CURRICULAR SPOTLIGHT

Explore the Jameel Arts and Health Lab – co-founded at NYU Steinhardt.

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