Christopher Rüping is renowned for productions in which emotion and intelligent analysis of our times underpin each other. Now he is bringing together Heinrich von Kleist and bell hooks for a play about love with a large and musical ensemble.

Christopher Rüping is renowned for productions that turn apparently complicated issues into forceful and entertaining actors’ celebration in which emotion and intelligent analysis of our times underpin each other. In All About Earthquakes, the German director is now bringing together Heinrich von Kleist and the American feminist, philosopher and author bell hooks. While Kleist first creates and then dismantles the democratic utopia of a classless Garden of Eden in his novella The Earthquake in Chile, bell hooks describes love as a tool of action to permanently overcome the trenches and injuries of modern society in her bestseller All About Love. With a large ensemble of 13 actors and one live musician, All About Earthquakes dares to attempt to create loving togetherness across boundaries. But can we even stand paradise?