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Verrückt nach Trost
Date details
- Date Saturday, 16/November/2024 19:00 (3 more dates)
- Venue Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Große Bühne
- Address Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin-Wilmersdorf
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Berlin, Bleibtreustr.
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Theater des Westens
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Bamberger Str.
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Uhlandstr./Kantstr.
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Friedrich-Hollaender-Platz
Part of:
Verrückt nach Trost
Performing Arts Season 2024/2025
– Eine Frau und ein Mann in sommerlicher Kleidung sitzen auf dem Boden. Dahinter ein riesiges Metallrohr.
© Armin Smailovic
World premiere: 6 August 2022, Salzburger Festspiele
Charlotte and Felix are mourning the loss of their parents. In director Thorsten Lensing’s first self-written play, the audience accompanies the siblings through surreal, moving and funny episodes from childhood to old age – with Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi and Devid Striesow.
Two children are playing the “Mama and Papa-game” on the beach: Siblings Felix and Charlotte invented this ritual in remembrance of their deceased parents, trying to give expression to their yearning for love and comfort. In the first part of Thorsten Lensing’s celebrated production “Verrückt nach Trost”, the children’s exuberant imagination allows all grief for their parents to dissipate for a moment. Over the course of the show, the audience accompanies the siblings over several decades, experiencing their equally funny, surreal and moving episodes. They are dealing with nothing less than life in the face of death, the fear of not having found one’s own way and the great yearning for the feeling of being truly alive.
Director Thorsten Lensing has been staging independent theatre productions since the mid-1990s, mostly in co-production with theatres and festivals including Sophiensæle in Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Theater im Pumpenhaus in Münster, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Schauspielhaus Zürich and deSingel in Antwerp. He always works with a fixed group of freelance actors. After stage-adaptations of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov” and David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” (invited to the 2019 Theatertreffen of Berliner Festspiele), “Verrückt nach Trost” is Thorsten Lensing’s first self-written piece for the theatre. He wrote it for a first-rate cast of long-time artistic companions: Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi and Devid Stresow embody grieving children, talking octopuses, divers with a death-wish, people who are unable to feel their own body, cows on the day of slaughter, nursing robots and the moribund who wait for their death in old-age homes. The presentation of “Verrückt nach Trost” at the Festspielhaus marks the beginning of a long-term co-operation of Berliner Festspiele with the Berlin-based theatre director and author whose productions have been successfully shown across Europe.
Artistic Team
Thorsten Lensing – Director
Benjamin Eggers-Domsky – Co-Director
Gordian Blumenthal, Ramun Capaul – Stage Design
Anette Guther – Costume Design
Dan Kolber, Thierry Mousset – Dramaturgy
Anne Inken Bickert – Assistant Director
Nuria Heyck, Luisa Puschendorf, Marie Fischer – Assistants Costume Designer
Eva-Karen Tittmann – Production Management
Martina Schulle – Management Poduction Stage
Michael Klatt, Dirk Lutz – Technical Directors
Titus Maderlechner – Sound Design
Charlie Wührer – Translation Surtitles
Benjamin Eggers-Domsky, Carolin Seidl – Surtitle arrangement
With
Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi, Devid Striesow
A co-production of Salzburger Festspiele and Thorsten Lensing with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Sophiensæle Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Theater Chur, asphalt Festival Düsseldorf, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main.
With the kind support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and the city of Münster.
Charlotte and Felix are mourning the loss of their parents. In director Thorsten Lensing’s first self-written play, the audience accompanies the siblings through surreal, moving and funny episodes from childhood to old age – with Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi and Devid Striesow.
Two children are playing the “Mama and Papa-game” on the beach: Siblings Felix and Charlotte invented this ritual in remembrance of their deceased parents, trying to give expression to their yearning for love and comfort. In the first part of Thorsten Lensing’s celebrated production “Verrückt nach Trost”, the children’s exuberant imagination allows all grief for their parents to dissipate for a moment. Over the course of the show, the audience accompanies the siblings over several decades, experiencing their equally funny, surreal and moving episodes. They are dealing with nothing less than life in the face of death, the fear of not having found one’s own way and the great yearning for the feeling of being truly alive.
Director Thorsten Lensing has been staging independent theatre productions since the mid-1990s, mostly in co-production with theatres and festivals including Sophiensæle in Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Theater im Pumpenhaus in Münster, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Schauspielhaus Zürich and deSingel in Antwerp. He always works with a fixed group of freelance actors. After stage-adaptations of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov” and David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” (invited to the 2019 Theatertreffen of Berliner Festspiele), “Verrückt nach Trost” is Thorsten Lensing’s first self-written piece for the theatre. He wrote it for a first-rate cast of long-time artistic companions: Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi and Devid Stresow embody grieving children, talking octopuses, divers with a death-wish, people who are unable to feel their own body, cows on the day of slaughter, nursing robots and the moribund who wait for their death in old-age homes. The presentation of “Verrückt nach Trost” at the Festspielhaus marks the beginning of a long-term co-operation of Berliner Festspiele with the Berlin-based theatre director and author whose productions have been successfully shown across Europe.
Artistic Team
Thorsten Lensing – Director
Benjamin Eggers-Domsky – Co-Director
Gordian Blumenthal, Ramun Capaul – Stage Design
Anette Guther – Costume Design
Dan Kolber, Thierry Mousset – Dramaturgy
Anne Inken Bickert – Assistant Director
Nuria Heyck, Luisa Puschendorf, Marie Fischer – Assistants Costume Designer
Eva-Karen Tittmann – Production Management
Martina Schulle – Management Poduction Stage
Michael Klatt, Dirk Lutz – Technical Directors
Titus Maderlechner – Sound Design
Charlie Wührer – Translation Surtitles
Benjamin Eggers-Domsky, Carolin Seidl – Surtitle arrangement
With
Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi, Devid Striesow
A co-production of Salzburger Festspiele and Thorsten Lensing with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Sophiensæle Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Theater Chur, asphalt Festival Düsseldorf, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main.
With the kind support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and the city of Münster.
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