Das Leben ein Traum

Rois, Schönborn • based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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II once read in a book the sentence: It is not heaven’s way to raise its head. It would be a good thing if everyone knew of this sentence that speaks of the hardness of heaven. Oh no, it really isn’t heaven’s way to look down, to give signs to the bewildered people below it.At least not where such a sombre drama takes place in which it too, this fabricated ‘above’, plays a part. Father and son. A son — that such a thing exists, that is what is inconceivable.Words like this occur to me now because there is no lucid word for this gloomy business; merely to think about it deprives one of one’s reason. A gloomy business: for there was my seed, indefinable and uncanny to me myself, and then Hanna’s blood in which the child was nourished and which accompanied the birth, altogether a gloomy business.This bewilderment. This desolation. I felt extinct as a man, impotent. I wanted to remain so. If a bill were presented it would go in my favour. To withdraw from the human race, to come to an end, an end, let it come to that!

(Ingeborg Bachmann)

SIGISMUND: I’m more convinced than ever that man is an unhappy beast.

Our civilisation is on the brink of vital exhaustion. In 17th-century Spain, when the hunger for life was huge, official culture focused on the denial of desires and carnal lust. Earthly presence, they kept reminding folks, had only imperfect pleasures to offer, and God was the sole true source of happiness. This discourse is no longer acceptable today. We are in desperate need of adventures, erotic and otherwise, busy telling ourselves that life is exciting and wonderful, as, of course, this is exactly what we are in doubt of.

Being broken on the wheel and quartered was certainly not pleasant, alright. But at least you bit the dust, aware that the whole thing was about something. Going back to this happy state of being is impossible today.

Artists/Collaborators: Uwe Dag Berlin, Margarita Breitkreiz, Klaus Dobbrick, Sabin Fleck, Kerstin Graßmann, Silvia Rieger, Sophie Rois, Clemens Maria Schönborn (Regie), Kevin Sock, Barbara Steiner, Sabine Zielke, Uwe Dag Berlin (mit), Margarita Breitkreiz (mit), Kerstin Graßmann (mit), Silvia Rieger (mit), Sophie Rois (mit), Clemens Maria Schönborn (Regie), Barbara Steiner (Bühne), Sabin Fleck (Kostüme), Kevin Sock (Beleuchtung), Klaus Dobbrick (Ton), Sabine Zielke (Dramaturgie)

Next date:

• Date Friday, 13/December/2024 19:30 bis 21:15
• Venue Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Großes Haus
• Address Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte