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In its sixth year of international touring. After being invited to the Biennale in 2023 ‘Essay on Dying’ now comes for a second time to Venice.

When: 18 Ocotber 2025
Where: Scuola Piccola Zattere / Teatro a l'Avogaria. 

“A radical and at the same time tender text.”
Bayrischer Rundfunk

“This is theater at its zero point. But it is precisely in this radicality that the pathos of this evening arises.” bz

“Because Nikitin, in his own initial helplessness, develops a clear language for disturbing thoughts that are difficult to sort out. Because he confronts pain and grief with something that is not a pale consolation, but a courageous self-assertion. Versuch über das Sterben is not so much about death, but about life.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung