With "Amsterdam", Theater Lüneburg brings a haunting play to the stage that interweaves personal identity, memory culture and social attributions. Maya Arad Yasur tells a polyphonic story about origin, foreignness and the cracks in a seemingly open society.
A young woman has come to Amsterdam from Israel for work. She is a violinist and feels at home in the city's open society. Until one day an envelope is slipped under her front door, containing a gas bill that has been unpaid since 1944. The young woman sets off in search of the actual addressee, asks around in the neighborhood, contacts the authorities and the gas supplier and researches the archives. However, the secret of the bill is not revealed any time soon. But it becomes clear that it must have something to do with the former residents of the apartment. But who lived there during and after the Nazi era? The old neighbor Jan, who could possibly provide an answer, remains silent.
The search for the story behind the gas bill leads the young woman to questions that directly affect her and her own identity. Suddenly, many things are no longer so self-evident in this freedom-loving, tolerant city. Why do they all look at her so suspiciously in the supermarket? What do they see in her? What origin do they attribute to her?
Premiere February 14,
Further performances: February 21, March 1, 8, and 20, April 15, 17, and 29, May 13 and 21, 2026
