markus&markustheaterkollektiv: Ibsen: Peer Gynt – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
markus&markustheaterkollektiv: Ibsen: Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt is an exceptionally talented dancer, womanizer and pilot. He knows how to handle a machine gun. However, the button-molder wants to melt his soul just like a misshaped lead figure. He can only escape this fate if he can prove that he was himself throughout his life. Peer has nine children, but he can’t be with them because a wall has been built between them. Peer Gynt has dementia. What is the ‘self’ exactly? And who exactly decides whose reality is valid?
MARKUS&MARKUS ARE Katarina Eckold, Lara-Joy Hamann, Manuela Pirozzi, Markus Schäfer, Markus Wenzel GUEST Herbert
A production by markus&markus in co-production with Gessnerallee Zürich, ROXY Birsfelden, LOT Braunschweig and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Mayor of Berlin - Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., MWK Niedersachsen, Stiftung Niedersachsen and Kulturbüro der Stadt Hildesheim. With friendly support of Funk.
Photos: Paula Reissig
Lara-Joy Bues, Katarina Eckold, Markus Schäfer and Markus Schmans have been working together as markus&markustheaterkollektiv since 2012. Their work is characterised by intensive research, the results of which — captured on video — form an elementary building block of their productions. They do not speak about a subject, but from within it. The people who are directly affected by the subject at hand are given a voice: their protagonists. Their work has been recognised with the George Tabori Award and the Best-Off Festival Prize of the Stiftung Niedersachsen.
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