A man starts running a few hours after his six-year-old daughter, who has been suffering from cancer, has been taken off life-support. He starts running and he cannot stop again. For amidst the grief, loss and unfairness of it all, running becomes the one place, where he feels light, free and strong. Where he can breathe. And where he may still be able to feel close to his dead daughter. The piece is based on blogger Anders Legarth Schmidt’s own experiences and opens up for questions of how you survive the loss of a child. I RUN is about running. But it is also about being helpless facing illness. And about the roles of death and grief in a society, which tries to hide death as a fact of life.
The play demands an actor in a good shape, as the monologue must be performed running.
JEG LØBER, Det Kongelige Teater 2017 © Camilla Winther
