Hugo von Hofmannsthal Jedermann
The Play about the Death of the Rich Man
PREMIERE
- 02 August 2008, 20:30
- 04 August 2008, 20:30
- 08 August 2008, 20:30
- 09 August 2008, 20:30
- 11 August 2008, 20:30
- 15 August 2008, 17:30
- 16 August 2008, 17:30
- 19 August 2008, 17:00
- 25 August 2008, 17:00
- 29 August 2008, 16:00
- 31 August 2008, 16:00
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Christian Stückl, Stage Director
Marlene Poley, Sets and Costumes
Markus Zwink, Music
Peter Fitz, The Lord God / A Poor Neighbour
Clemens Schick, Death
Peter Simonischek, Everyman
Elisabeth Trissenaar, Everyman’s Mother
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Everyman's Good Companion / Devil
Sophie von Kessel, Paramour
Friedrich Mücke, A Debtor
Britta Bayer, The Debtor’s Wife
Heinz Zuber, Fat Cousin
Thomas Limpinsel, Thin Cousin
Gabriel Raab, Mammon
Elisabeth Rath, Good Deeds
Johann Christof Wehrs, The Steward
Olaf Weissenberg, The Cook
Dennis Junge, Servant
Riederinger Kinder, The Narrators
Vessela Dukova, Margarete Ederer, Beth Jones, Elisabeth Lauterbrunner, Elena Litvinenko, Christine Meislinger, Ruth Paskert, Johanna Visser, Christine Walther, Stefan Adamski, Bernhard Ederer, Walter Fischer, Daniel Kranawitter, Georg Kreuzbauer, Josef Oberauer, Johann Schartner, Wolfgang Schneider, Josef Schorghofer, Table Companions
Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor, Musical Direction
Conversion does not take place through the recitation of pious
formulas. This is the message that Christian Stückl places at the
dramaturgical center of his revised version of Everyman (Jedermann). Jedermann's
late insight of having missed the point of his own life becomes the
turning point of his conversion – made possible and initiated by the
trusting gaze of a woman. In this gaze, he sees that his life has not
been judged summarily. In the end, that is the faith which is demanded
of Jedermann: the conviction that God means well for him and his life,
and will continue to mean well until the end. That the creator has
placed his creature on a path, and will return him to that path, in
spite of all his aberrations and mistakes. Conversion is more than
turning around, it is returning home: arriving at one's own self, at
the human core of being inherent in every person.
Josef Bruckmoser