Bella Figura

Directed by Hannes Rossacher and Thomas Ostermeier

With Nina Hoss, Mark Waschke, Stephanie Eidt, Renato Schuch and Lore Stefanek

Bella Figura is a play where the stage direction "flottement" (a suspension, indeterminacy, or oscillation) occurs frequently, indicating a moment of silence when the characters and audience are left in ambiguous tension. The playwright Yasmina Reza wrote Bella Figura specifically for the Schaubühne director Thomas Ostermeier, and I imagine that she included these floating silences with him in mind.