DIE ORESTIE by Simon Stone
Directed by: Thomas Koppelt
With Raphaela Baumgartner, Andreas Beer, Hanna Erz, Emilia and Eva Giesler, Eva-Maria Gruber, Sascha Lachmann, Christoph and Lotta Leibold, Finn Pulfer, Lena Sammüller, Trudel Meier-Staude, Matthias Weber
A father who sacrifices his daughter for success. A woman who, together with her lover, murders her husband. A son who takes bloody revenge on his own mother and falls into madness.
Welcome to the most dysfunctional family in theatre history!
2500 years before "Succession," the Greek poet Aeschylus invented the series format: in three parts, he told of a dysfunctional ruling house, whose members become the playthings of the gods and shred themselves in a cycle of guilt and revenge.
The Australian-Swiss theatre maker Simon Stone, known for his radical reinterpretations of classical works, has stripped the myth of its patina and brought the old story of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, and Electra into the present. He shows us a family torn apart by loss, desperately trying to escape its own history. And he poses questions that concern us all: Why do traumas pass down through generations? Can we escape the seemingly unstoppable spiral of violence and counter-violence? Where does justice end and vigilante justice begin? Stone's Orestes is refreshingly modern, shockingly human, and – perhaps his greatest achievement – surprisingly comedic.
Premiere 04.07.26
Further Dates
Thu 09.07., Fri. 10.07., Sat 18.07., Mon 20.07., Thu 23.07., Fri. 24.07., and Sat 25.07. each at 20:00
http://www.theater5.de/Admission at 19:45
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