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Amphitryon

Heinrich von Kleist

"Anyone who (...) wants to explore an exciting new reading and experience the Kleistian essence of the play in the extreme will find it in this production." (coolibri)

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Until recently, everything was nice and tidy: heroes go to war, women wait for their return, servants serve and the gods are enthroned above everything in Olympus. But when Jupiter, the father of the gods, descends and spends an intoxicating night of love with his wife Alcmene in the guise of the Theban ruler Amphitryon, who has just won a victory on a distant battlefield, all certainty is lost: who is the real Amphitryon, which experience can be trusted? What else can you rely on when even your own self is no longer reliable? The contradictions and uncertainties resulting from the encounter between divine intoxication and profane reality flow into what is probably the most famous sigh in world literature, the "Ach!" of the confused Alkmene: a linguistic capitulation to an existential dilemma. Heinrich von Kleist has created a confusing and unsettling play about identity from the ancient comedy story of the double Amphitryon, which, for all its comedy, illuminates a deep rift in each of us: What can I know of myself and what consciousness speaks from me?

 

Information

Location

Theater an der Ruhr
Akazienallee 61
45478 Theater an der Ruhr

Cast

Team

On the stage, which is only lit up in the background, a group stands holding up cloud-like signs onto which a face is projected.

Photo: Franziska Götzen

Jess Johnson

An actor in a short tracksuit stands in the dark, a spotlight falls on him from the side.

Felix Römer

Photo: Franziska Götzen

Five actors in short tracksuits stand in front of a neon yellow backdrop, one in the foreground while the others stand together as a group in the background.

Leonhard Hugger, Alina Heipe, Felix Römer, Gabriella Weber, Berit Vander

Photo: Franziska Götzen

A woman in a long robe stands close to a video screen on which an oversized and blurred male face is projected.

Leonhard Hugger, Alina Heipe

Foto: Franziska Götzen

Three identically dressed women with curly wigs are bent over on the floor looking into a camera that projects them onto a screen in the background.

Gabriella Weber, Alina Heipe, Berit Vander

Photo: Franziska Götzen

Three identically dressed women in long robes and with long hair stand as a group behind an actor in a white suit.

Alina Heipe, Gabriella Weber, Berit Vander, Leonhard Hugger

Photo: Franziska Götzen

Two actors dressed alike in long dresses and curly wigs stand in the background of a neon yellow alleyway stage close to a screen on which their faces are projected in large format.

Gabriella Weber, Felix Römer

Photo: Franziska Götzen

Two actresses in long transparent gowns and two other actors in long black dresses and curly wigs stand like mirror images in a row at the front of the stage.

Berit Vander, Gabriella Weber, Felix Römer, Alina Heipe

Photo: Franziska Götzen

The face of a man is projected large onto a screen, a woman in a long robe stands in front of it and looks at him, both half disappearing into the fog.

Leonhard Hugger, Alina Heipe

Photo: Franziska Götzen

A woman in a long black dress and curly wig stands in front of a neon yellow stage backdrop and raises her arms in the air.

Gabriella Weber

Photo: Franziska Götzen

The face of a man with a headband and a cucumber in his hand is projected large onto a screen, in front of which an actor dressed in white stands and looks towards him.

Felix Römer, Leonhard Hugger

Photo: Franzsika Götzen

Five actors dressed alike in black robes and with long blonde hair stand together as a group.

Felix Römer, Alina Heipe, Leonhard Hugger, Berit Vander, Gabriella Weber

Photo: Franziska Götzen

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Introduction Amphitryon

Talk with Philipp Preuss and Constanze Fröhlich.

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