Sabine Harbeke

one has stopped time, one is without rest and addicted to love, the third avenges randomly, two loved each other and one is missing.

“Sabine Harbeke, 39, refers to her work as a research project. She interviewed people in New York and developed seven scenes after 9/11 from these interviews. Stories that could be set in New York or in Hamburg. Stories, originating in the ordinary and changing into the monstrous. Stories, which carry the catastrophe in their first sentence, resonating harmlessly. Stories, sounding like chattering and revealing hell’s depths in a somersault. (…) The drastic elements of the stories become playable because Sabine Harbeke is a purist – a Jil Sander of theatre. (…) Nothing wants to appear as more as it is, nothing wants to mean more than it seems to mean.”

“In seven short scenes, seven short cuts sometime after 9/11, Sabine Harbeke lets people meet who have carried a problem with them ever since. A woman lost her husband and lover, a man can’t leave his house anymore, another sells two-dollar-poems in a pushy and excessively polite way… Harbeke tells of oppressively unpretentious banalities… it’s about guilt and lies and the effort of keeping up a daily routine. Ground-Zero-daily life.” (Hamburger Abendblatt)