The Berlin-based Israeli playwright Sivan Ben Yishai doesn’t do things by halves. When she updates a canonized play, like Henrik Ibsen’s Norathen completely. All that remains of the Norwegian author (1828–1906) is the idea. Ben Yishai makes the radical approach clear in the title, as she explains her writing Nora but as a composting process: Nora or How to Compost the Mansion. In 2024, Ben Yishai won the Mülheim Drama Prize for the second time; The impressive Austrian premiere took place at the Schauspielhaus Vienna, translated by Gerhild Steinbuch.
