Zwickau
“Urfaust” - Drama by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The aging Faust is torn. Wavering between life and death – weary of living – his past haunts him. It is an unreal state in the flickering neon light of a hospital room where Faust awakens. Is he dreaming that Mephisto himself
sits down on his bed to tell him of the abysses of existence?
Are his two younger doppelgängers truly a male nurse and a senior physician observing him from their glass booth and watching him brood? Or are they his own remorse, his own wistfulness?
Director Nora Bussenius' production enters in-between worlds:
between anesthesia and waking, between an intoxicating spirit realm and the banality of everyday desires. A liminal state, then: an impenetrable no-longer-living
and not-yet-dying. Set designer Lara Belén Jackel has translated *the* German tragedy into a sterile white setting familiar to many from their own hospital stays or visits: anyone who ends up here, to heal or to die, finds no comfort,
but rather an experience that can never be entirely sure of its own reality.
And so Faust lies there, too, at the mercy of himself, his memories, and the will of the medical staff.
This early version of »Faust« by the young Goethe captivates with forceful, immediate language. Here, the focus is not on the pact with the devil, but on the tragedy of Faust and Gretchen: an impossible love story doomed to fail not only because of her underage status. Gretchen, essentially still a child herself, desires, loves, and suffers. She breaks free from sex-negative virtue and societal norms, ultimately becoming the murderer of her own child – or does she?
In any case: Gretchen is not merely a screen for projection here, but a multifaceted and self-sufficient female figure.
Director Nora Bussenius Stage/Costumes Lara Belén Jackel Music Sebastian Undisz Video Gary Hurst Dramaturgy Kornelius Luther
With Kristin Heil, Ute Menzel; Klaus Gramüller, Daniel Koch, Lev Semenov, child extras
Introduction 30 minutes before each performance (except the premiere).
sits down on his bed to tell him of the abysses of existence?
Are his two younger doppelgängers truly a male nurse and a senior physician observing him from their glass booth and watching him brood? Or are they his own remorse, his own wistfulness?
Director Nora Bussenius' production enters in-between worlds:
between anesthesia and waking, between an intoxicating spirit realm and the banality of everyday desires. A liminal state, then: an impenetrable no-longer-living
and not-yet-dying. Set designer Lara Belén Jackel has translated *the* German tragedy into a sterile white setting familiar to many from their own hospital stays or visits: anyone who ends up here, to heal or to die, finds no comfort,
but rather an experience that can never be entirely sure of its own reality.
And so Faust lies there, too, at the mercy of himself, his memories, and the will of the medical staff.
This early version of »Faust« by the young Goethe captivates with forceful, immediate language. Here, the focus is not on the pact with the devil, but on the tragedy of Faust and Gretchen: an impossible love story doomed to fail not only because of her underage status. Gretchen, essentially still a child herself, desires, loves, and suffers. She breaks free from sex-negative virtue and societal norms, ultimately becoming the murderer of her own child – or does she?
In any case: Gretchen is not merely a screen for projection here, but a multifaceted and self-sufficient female figure.
Director Nora Bussenius Stage/Costumes Lara Belén Jackel Music Sebastian Undisz Video Gary Hurst Dramaturgy Kornelius Luther
With Kristin Heil, Ute Menzel; Klaus Gramüller, Daniel Koch, Lev Semenov, child extras
Introduction 30 minutes before each performance (except the premiere).
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Venue
Theater Plauen-Zwickau
Neuberinplatz
08056 Zwickau
Phone: 0375 / 27411-4647
Email: service-zwickau@theater-plauen-zwickau.de
