Gaia in a version by Till Ernecke
© Jannik Görger
Since the establishment of theater as a bourgeois art form in the 19th century, numerous authors and theater makers have formulated the demand to penetrate social reality with the means of art and to bring it to view in its contradictoriness. The directing students of the Thomas Bernhard Institute work with classical drama texts, which they set in relation to the social and political reality of our present.
With: Valerie Martin, Jonin Herzig, Juliette Larat, Rachid Zinaldin
Director: Till Ernecke
Stage/Costumes: Marina Calabrese
Dramaturgical assistance: Nico Lenz-Oberngruber
"All countries boiled with heat, the sea and the sky,
thunderous spray foamed the shores, lathered the waves
under the onslaught of the gods; a terrible quake arose.
The earth groaned below." (Hesiod)
The war against Gaia comes to a head. White silence announces the final round. Into the silence the questions are addressed to the oracle: What damage have we done? What can we do now?