Radio recordings, satellite signals, possible crash sites, search missions—despite a flood of data, clues, and assumptions, the plane and the people on board remain missing to this day. How can a passenger flight disappear in the digital age? And what does it mean for relatives when there is never any certainty about the whereabouts of their loved ones?
The overlapping of both stories creates a space in which the uncertain, the open, and the incomprehensible condense. This extraordinary evening is carried above all by its music. Barbara Morgenstern’s live composition forms the pulsating center: it captures fragments of memory, stretches silence, and weaves a unique atmosphere. Performed by the musicians of the Zafraan Ensemble, a vibrant whole emerges, sometimes driven, sometimes floating, sometimes fragile like a sentence that is left unfinished. In this way, the music becomes a resonance chamber for disappearance itself. There is no speech in “All right. Good Night.” All texts appear as projections on a fine gauze that floats like a permeable membrane between the audience and the soundscape. The absence of people thus becomes tangible: their bodies are missing, their voices mere traces in the room. The result is a multi-layered theater experience that does not explain loss, but makes it palpable.
More information and tickets: https://www.ruhrfestspiele.de/programm/2026/all-right-good-night
Concept, text, direction:: Helgard Haug
Composition: Barbara Morgenstern
Orchestra: Zafraan Ensemble
Hands: Johannes Benecke, Mia Rainprechter
Narrators: Emma Becker, Evi Filippou, Margot Gödrös, Ruth Reinecke, Mia Rainprechter, Louise Stölting
Stage: Evi Bauer
Video/Lighting Design: Marc Jungreithmeier
Sound Design: Peter Breitenbach
Conductor: Premil Petrović
Arrangement: Davor Branimir Vincze
Dramaturgy: Juliane Männel
Outside Eye: Aljoscha Begrich
Technical Director: Andreas Mihan
Technical Director Touring: Martin Schwemin
Artistic Collaboration: Lisa Homburger
Costumes and Artistic Collaboration Set Design: Christine Ruynat
Sound Design Assistance: Rozenn Lièvre
Assistance Technical director: David Scholz
Production Manager: Louise Stölting
Zafraan Ensemble musicians on stage: Matthias Badczong (Klarinette), Minhye Ko (Schlagzeug), Josa Gerhard (Violin), Martin Posegga (Saxophon), Beltane Ruiz (Kontrabass)
Zafraan Ensemble musicians on recording: Josa Gerhard (Violin), Noa Niv (Posaune), Matthias Badczong (Klarinette), Liam Mallet (Flöte), Martin Posegga (Saxophon), Damir Bacikin (Trompete), Anna Viechtl (Harfe), Adam Weisman (Schlagzeug), Evi Filippou (Schlagzeug), Yumi Onda (Violine), Benedikt Bindewald (Viola Tonaufnahme), Maria Reich (Viola), Alice Dixon (Cello), Natalie Plöger (Kontrabass), Florian Juncker (Posaune)
