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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Sigmund Freud

A conversation between a Rabbit and a Professor.
50 Minutes investigates the psyche of contemporary panic.
What does it feel like to live in a world on fire?
But, hang on, there are so many anxieties. Where do we begin?
What shall we do with everything we feel?


Furious, erotic, political, surreal, poetic, hopeless, hopeful, absurd, humorous, sophisticated, welcome to 50 Minutes, the War War, Jaw Jaw, Bunny Play, Zurich, newly written by acclaimed British author, Deborah Levy, for Theater Neumarkt.

Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, including Swimming Home, Hot Milk and August Blue, published by Aki, Kampa Verlag. Her writing is translated worldwide and she has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times. Her trilogy of living autobiographies, Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living, and Real Estate won the The Prix Femina étranger 2020 in France and the Christopher Isherwood Prize in the USA.

Deborah Levy trained in Writing for Performance at Dartington College of Arts. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Language English with German subtitles
Duration about 60 minutes

With great & generous support of Dedar