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.
Nisha Sajnani on All Right. Good Night.
Theatre, like therapy, does not erase loss but helps us carry it.
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.
Read All About It
Bomb Magazine | September 2025
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.
The Times (UK) | July 2023
Review: a missing plane and a lost father become a gripping drama
An exquisitely sad reminder of the brevity and mystery of life.
The Guardian | July 2023
Review: Extraordinary show about dementia and a disappearing plane
There are lacunae at the centre of both narratives: “Where are you?” and “Where did you go?”
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.
The Atlantic | July 2019
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO MALAYSIA’S MISSING AIRPLANE
The mystery surrounding MH370 has been a focus of continued investigation and a source of sometimes feverish public speculation.
New York Times | February 26, 2025
MH370 Disappeared More Than a Decade Ago. Here’s What We Know Today.
The reason the plane went off course and its exact location today remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.
Extra Credit
Explore some of the ways the arts impact and benefit health, memory, and quality of life.
The Guardian | March 2024
How dementia-friendly theatre is changing the narrative
In 2014, Taylor was the first person to introduce dementia-friendly performances – as far as she is aware – anywhere in the world.