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Would you die for love?
Love can be so overwhelming that the lover is prepared to die rather than live with unrequited love. The epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe from 1774 tells the tragic story of a young man named Werther and his love for Lotte. Lotte marries someone else, after which Werther's salvation is suicide.
And today? Does love still exert a destructive power over lovers? What language do we have for this feeling? Lies Pauwels (Der Hamiltonkomplex, Baroque) uses the story of Werther to develop an evening about the nature of (contemporary) love. How does love work? What forms can it take? Is it political, is it personal? The director develops sensitive stagings from self-written texts and soundtracks in her own visually powerful theatre language. An evening full of love, passion, longing, intoxication – 1774 / 2024.
Cast
- With
- Dominik Dos-Reis
- Marius Huth
- Risto Kübar
- Lukas von der Lühe
- Şevval Ertürk
- Kaja Gruba
- Katharina Klos
- Tabea Zoí Sander
- Helin Su Yusufoglu
Staff
- Lies Pauwels
