Unterwerfung / Gegen den Strich
Houellebecq // Huysmans
Stefan Keim on WDR 3 Mosaik:
"great directorial achievement by Philipp Preuss - terrific acting performances - one of the highlights of the theater season."
Despairing and cynical, Jean Floressa's Des Esseintes, an ailing aristocratic scion with a penchant for quirk, and Francois, a washed-up professor of literature with a penchant for young female students, are finished with the world. The protagonists of Joris-Karl Huysman's decadent novel "Gegen den Strich" (1884) and Michel Houellebecq's scandalous novel "Unterwerfung" (2015) both sit at a richly laid table, yet they pine for something to satisfy their hunger for meaning. While one celebrates a radical withdrawal from society, the other faces a fundamental systemic change under the banner of political Islam. A European menu in two times and five courses.
Sponsored within the framework of NEUE WEGE by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the NRW KULTURsekretariat.
Information
Premiere
27.02.2020
Location
Theater an der Ruhr
Akazienallee 61
45478 Theater an der Ruhr
Cast
- Petra von der Beek
François / Des Esseintes - Felix Römer
Des Esseintes / François - Nina Wolf
Myriam - Klaus Herzog
Schildkröte / Robert Rediger - Rupert J. Seidl
Maître de Cérémonie - Leonhard Hugger
Auguste Antoine Langlois-Doinel - Steffen Reuber
Alain Tanneur - Kornelius Heidebrecht / Igor Kirillov
Musician
Team
- Philipp Preuss
Director - Helmut Schäfer
Dramaturgy - Constanze Fröhlich
Dramaturgy - Ramallah Aubrecht
Stage-Design - Eva Karobath
Costumes - Kornelius Heidebrecht
Music - Konny Keller
Video - Fritz Dumcius
Light-Design - Toby Stöttner
Assistant Director