Schwarzwasser

Tickets
Address Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, Berlin
Venue's website www.berliner-ensemble.de
Length 105 min
Director Christina Tscharyiski
Author Elfriede Jelinek

Performing: Claude De Demo, Bettina Hoppe, Cynthia Micas, Stefanie Reinsperger, Laura Landergott (Live Musik), Maya Postepski (Live Musik), Jessyca R. Hauser (Live Musik).

The permanent troublemaker Jelinek has struck again: with her latest text, she tears open the conflict-ridden contemporary panorama wide and unredeemed without regard for losses. In gushing cascades of words and thought sculptures, she dissects the climate catastrophe as well as right-wing populist ideas that are spreading like the plague at an ever more breathtaking pace worldwide and infecting almost all areas of life. The starting point for her writing was the Ibiza affair, which caused a tremor in Austrian politics last May. But as always, Elfriede Jelinek is less concerned with current events than with fundamental issues. Thus the godlike self-dramatization of a type of politician comes into focus, as does the violent thinking and the claim to dominion over man and nature that underlies it. Not only the media landscape is to be sold, but also domestic nature: Rivers and lakes could be privatized for profit, mountains and valleys could be used for lucrative road construction. Jelinek's hyper-associative text suada undertakes a sweeping tour of what makes the present so toxic-infectious and the future so questionable-and in the process effortlessly traverses the centuries back to the origins of violence, ideology and competition: to Euripides' "Backchen". The intoxicating dissolution of boundaries, the loss of rationality, the longing for identity and community, as well as the admonishing call for reason and moderation, for stability and order, which the ancient drama inscribes in the adversaries Dionysus and Pentheus, coagulate for Jelinek into vanishing points and into the distorting mirror of a present that can only be endured as satire and constantly undercuts itself in the process.

Austrian director Christina Tscharyiski brings Schwarzwasser (black water) to the stage at the Neues Haus. The anarchy and wickedly sparkling humor inherent in Jelinek's texts interest Tscharyiski at least as much as the hilarious analysis of models of violence in our cultural sphere. Her visually powerful production of Revolt. She said. Revolt again. / Mar-a-Lago at the Berliner Ensemble was invited to the Radikal Jung festival in Munich last year.Yes, eh! Beisl, Bier und Bachmannpreis with texts by Stefanie Sargnagel won the audience award and was nominated for the Nestroy Prize.

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