RIMINI PROTOKOLL: ALL RIGHT. GOOD NIGHT.

Acclaimed docu-theater artist Helgard Haug interweaves the vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with the slow decline of a mind with dementia, mirroring globally and personally experienced forms of ambiguous loss. How do we make the missing tangible? What remains when presence disappears?

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished mid-flight—an event that remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. In All right. Good night., Haug interweaves this unfathomable disappearance with a deeply personal story: her father’s slow fading into dementia. Through documentary storytelling, and a live score by Barbara Morgenstern and the Zafraan Ensemble, the production transports audiences to a realm unreachable by research, transforming loss into an evocative theatrical experience.

Haug said, “It made sense somehow that these forms of not-knowing, of not being able to rely anymore on what you get as an information, felt connected. It was the first time that I created such a personal story. Often I am connected to the themes of my work, but I always explore these maybe very personal themes by finding people who tell their own stories. Here I really felt the urge to capture this experience, but in a way that’s not overwhelmed by firsthand emotions—treating it as a protocol that tries to look at different steps throughout the process to capture these unsure moments.”