Titus Andronicus, 2014 studioNAXOS Frankfurt
schließenAn incredible intensity - I was thrilled.(HR Early Critics)
When he closes his eyes, he sees the city.
The steppe looks out of him when he opens them.
Great Rome, cradle of our world: Titus Andronicus returns from the war against the foreign Goths. The prisoners are fed to the civilization machine Rome, because the empire, built on the dead, is to continue. But the Goths do not want to go down so easily. Towering over Shakespeare's most brutal of revenge tragedies as an 'incurable wound' is Lavinia, the raped daughter of Titus, her tongue and arms cut off. She is the doubly incapacitated, pointing Rome to nowhere.
With Shakespeare's grotesque - widely known as his worst play - and Heiner Müller's ANATOMY TITUS, we dare to look at the cruel foundation of our civilization. Is every act of culture also always one of barbarism? At the threshold between dance and theater, waking and dreaming, human and animal, glass eyes look at us, which are perhaps our own.
Premiere on October 23, 2014 at studioNAXOS Frankfurt, further performances on October 24 and 25, 2014.
Acting: Johanna Franke, Lili Ullrich, Oliver Lau; Tanz: Orla McCarthy, Finn Lakeberg, Max Schumacher; Musik: Carlo Eisenmann, Jakob Fritz; Regie: Jan Philipp Stange; Bühne: Laura Robert; Dramaturgie: Björn Fischer; Komposition: Richard Millig; Kostüm: Juliana Cuellar Parra; Ausstattung: Anja Schäfer, Wiebke Schmitt; Organizational assistance Direction: Baris Akman