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After the translation by Chris Alexander.
Direction: Stefan Otteni. Stage: Heike Neugebauer. Costumes: Rike Schimitschek. Music: Thomas Krizsan/Maria Hinze. Musical Direction: Ekkehard Lampe-Steinhage.
With: Simon Elias, Tim Lee, Peter Lüchinger, Michael Meyer, Sofie Alice Miller, Petra-Janina Schultz, Kathrin Steinweg.

»Maß für Maß« belongs to William Shakespeare's comedies, which is not easy for today's audience to comprehend considering the life-and-death conflict. The engagement with it from a contemporary perspective is therefore all the more exciting.

Shakespeare's fictional Vienna is a morally degenerate metropolis where dubious scoundrels have taken hold, and everyday life is permeated by prostitution and crime. Apparently, the overly liberal government of the president is not entirely innocent, which is why she dares to take radical action: she appoints Angelo as interim regent, allegedly to go on a journey. In truth, however, she disguises herself as a nun and mixes with the people of the city.
Angelo is regarded as a true hardliner, incorruptible and righteous to the core. His first act in office is a death sentence: Claudio, who has impregnated his beloved before marriage, is to be executed for lewdness. But Lucio, Claudio's friend, persuades his sister Isabella to plead with Angelo for her brother's pardon. Isabella is a novice, and her purity and urgent pleas awaken feelings in Angelo that he has never experienced before: is it love or merely lust? He sees his opportunity to finally learn what love and lust are about and blackmails Isabella: if she sleeps with him, he would pardon her brother.
Isabella is outraged and prefers to sacrifice her brother than her self-determined chastity. As the noose tightens around them, Isabella asks the president, who is traveling incognito, for help. She finds a cunning way to catch Angelo in his own misconduct… Darkness, desire, a false corpse, and a nefarious show trial play the main roles in this.
In a brilliant way, William Shakespeare mixes this life-threatening conflict with situations full of black humor and legal philosophical and theological arguments - a crime story that raises the question of what a government is allowed to do to ensure the rule of law.

Also in the third work of the ensemble with director Stefan Otteni, following KING CHARLES III and ANGELA I, the relationship between people and state is explored. What rules does a city, a state set for itself? Do they follow insights and habits shared by the majority of the population and upon which they live, or do they depend on the personal qualities or shortcomings of those in power? Should a representative of the people pester or whip the populace to enforce laws? And who is "the people"? The thinking citizen? The blind mob? Questions that arise urgently after the pandemic and populism. Tragic questions that Shakespeare resolves in a comedic drama, or a dramatic comedy.


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