“If love came…” Is that still the great hope? Romance has become a consumer good, successful relationships are difficult, more and more people are looking for alternative relationship models. And yet: love has society in its grip. Who wouldn’t want to be held in the arms of another?
Image gallery
Gier
Greed, the theatrical long poem by British playwright Sarah Kane, reflects this desire. The play exposes the inner world of desperate, highly romantic lovers. The voices of Greed, they seek closeness, they want to impose themselves on each other. And yet their desire for security remains unfulfilled. How do we meet these voices?
Director Christopher Rüping transforms Kane’s text into a theatrical experimental setup: While Maja Beckmann, Benjamin Lillie, Sasha Melroch and Steven Sowah speak the text, we watch a fifth actress – Wiebke Mollenhauer – react to the text. What happens then?
Perhaps we can reconnect with the graphic depictions of violence for which Sarah Kane became famous in the 1990s. Perhaps we see ourselves, a society in therapy whose thirst for recognition and validation seems insatiable. Or will the evening succeed in keeping the hungry voices in our heads in suspense for a moment?
Christopher Rüping's production at the Schauspielhaus Zurich has won many awards; Wiebke Mollenhauer was voted Actress of the Year for her performance.
The theater evening can be seen at the Deutsches Theater from February.
(IN GERMAN)
Additional information
Participating artists
Sarah Kane (Autor/in)
Benjamin Lillie
Maja Beckmann
Sasha Melroch
Wiebke Mollenhauer
Steven Sowah
Yağmur Atagü (Live-Musik)
Berkay Olgun (Live-Musik)
Tabea Schrenk (Live-Musik)
Amanda Josephine Bailey (Live-Musik)
Isabelle Klemt (Live-Musik)
Jonathan Heck (Live-Musik)
Dates
February 2025
| Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1
|
2
| |||||
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
