Der Gott des Gemetzels - Schauspiel von Yasmina Reza in Bairischer Sprache
"I don't understand why you have to embarrass yourself in front of other people" ... "Shut up"
THE PIECE
Alex and Annette Huber's son knocked out two front teeth of Micha and Veronika Rey's son. So the two couples decide to meet and come to an amicable agreement. But that's easier said than done. What starts as a reconciliatory agreement over clafoutis and espresso escalates into a verbal mud fight, where all the masks of civilized bourgeoisie fall. "God of Carnage" is one of the most performed plays of the past decades and was filmed under the direction of Roman Polanski.
THE BAVARIAN TRANSLATION
With the Bavarian translation of the play, two theater cultures collide: contemporary spoken theater meets folk theater. The Bavarian dialect has traditionally been used as a stage language in a traditional context. As the culture of Bavaria is strong and there is a certain reluctance to engage with modern spoken theater for various reasons, both cultures, with a few exceptions, exist in parallel. "God of Carnage" in Bavarian translation is the cunning illegitimate child of an affair between these two cultures. The comedy of conversation remains intact, but it becomes a French-Bavarian one. The dialect is so precise and intelligent that the characters never come close to the lederhosen cliché but rather somewhere between Paris and Trostberg: Bavaria is Paris and Paris is Bavaria. This is partly comforting and partly disturbing, but in any case, it is a simple yet powerful statement. Common Bavarian clichés of cozy traditional lederhosen won't get you far. We don't want that either, as these clichés are well known. Just clichés. The Bavarian characters, like their Parisian twins, are at home in the modern world. The narrow, background, and malicious aspects are fully preserved in the Bavarian translation. However, the roughness of the Bavarian language gives the characters an impact that is hard to resist.
The production was awarded the Innovation Prize for Folk Culture by the City of Munich.
Doors open: 7:00 PM
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
