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On tour since 2019 and already presented in more than seventy cities worldwide, Essay on Dying will next be shown at the HEAT Festival in Cape Town.

When: 14 & 15 August 2026
Where: HEAT Festival, Cape Town

“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