Nobody Is Home

What if your own father or mother is suddenly in need of care - and you realize that you can't cope without outside help? What if you are suddenly one of the many who are looking for a loving and skilled caregiver for their loved ones and realize that the need is beyond all limits? The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) in Manila and the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Theatre in Schwerin are jointly developing a play that deals with a topic that concerns and affects us all: care. Nobody Is Home traces the global connections between the care crisis and care migration in the construct of a family. The focus is on women who could not be more different: One of them is unable to care for her parents herself. The other leaves her home and her children to work abroad as a carer. Ultimately, however, both women are united by the fact that they are part of a global phenomenon in the late capitalist age, in which no one is where she would actually like to be: at home. The theater evening is a collaboration between directors J-mee Katanyag and Nina Gühlstorff with actors from Manila and Schwerin in both locations.