As we get older, some thoughts keep us awake at night: What will the last years of our lives be like? Where will we live and how will we pay our bills? Who will love and take care of us?

Young, beautiful, productive – if you don’t have all these qualities, you will struggle in today’s society. And even though society is getting older, senior citizens are disappearing from public life; from political, erotic and artistic everyday life. The pandemic is making the situation worse for many elderly people. Isolated and excluded, their fate is often decided by others.  

In Lola Arias’s latest work, a diverse group of people over sixty-five years old and their carers refuse to become extras in this science fiction film that life has become. The protagonists have lived through Nazism, the events of 1968, the rise of feminism and now, the pandemic. Rebellious, disobedient, desirous, they spurn their assigned place in this social theatre and call on others to revolt. In a glass house with a complex set-up of live cameras, archive material, chats, Zoom calls and music, the performers confront us with our past, present and future.

I'M NOT DEAD was co-produced by Staatstheater Hannover and Theaterformen Festival.

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