Philoctet by Heiner Müller
© 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: Linda Kummer (Odysseus), Marie Eick-Kerssenbrock (Philoctet), Carl Herten (Neoptolemos)
Director: Henry Schlage
Stage/Costumes: Yoko Ann Idler
The Spirits of the Dead: Odysseus, Neoptolemos, Philoktet, who, awakened from their sleep, must dreamwalk their way deeper and deeper into the bloody web of war. War on Troy, war between three people and three worldviews, war in their minds and bodies. The necessity of dehumanization and the consequent tearing of souls.
"Spit out your compassion, it tastes of blood." (H. Müller)