Darwin's Smile (Darwins Lächeln)

German premiere

Isabella Rossellini is one of the greatest actors of European and American cinema. Her performance in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" is legendary. The daughter of the Italian director Roberto Rossellini and the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman has also been a successful model for decades. What is less well known is that she also holds a master's degree in biology and has long been studying animals and their behavior. This is how she came up with the stage production "Green Porno," with which she made a guest appearance at the Ruhrfestspiele in 2015. Now she returns to Recklinghausen with her latest one-woman show. In it, Isabella Rossellini follows Charles Darwin's thoughts on animal and human behavior.

Her show is both a lesson on evolution and on acting. In "Darwin's Smile," Isabella Rossellini explores the extent to which empathy, so essential to acting, is also important for the study of animal behavior. With understatement and a self-deprecating tone, she demonstrates how acting can help us approach the mysterious nature of animal emotions. With humor and simplicity, she embodies dogs, cats, chickens, peacocks, and, of course, Charles Darwin himself.