Today: Kohlhaas

AGORA Theater & Theater Marabu

St. Vith/Belgium, Bonn/Germany

Drama based on Heinrich von Kleist

Company
Founded in 1993, Theater Marabu is an independent theatre company based in the renowned Brotfabrik cultural centre in Bonn. Every year the company develops one or two theatre productions with guest artists.
Autobiography is an important component of the work of the AGORA Theater, which was founded in 1980. Offering a year-round performance programme, AGORA is concurrently an independent touring company that puts on around 200 performances annually throughout Europe.

Performance
Drum roll! Enter Kohlhaas, a horse dealer with a thirst for justice, or a bandit and murderer? Once God-fearing, Kohlhaas embarks on a frenzied vendetta against the city of Wittenberg, which ends up in flames. Kleist’s novel has been turned into a ballad about power and justice, despotism and resistance, into a wild and explosive jamboree. Like a fairground spectacle, it veers between madness and farce, comedy and melodrama. This burlesque production with glove puppets, minstrels and live music – even Martin Luther botches his lines – is both timeless and universal.

Supported by: Via 2018 Maastricht, Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens, Services Culturels de la Province de Liège, Communauté francaise de Belgique, KULTURsekretariat NRW, Stadt Bonn, Land NRW

- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Director: Claus Overkamp
General artistic direction: Kurt Pothen
Cast: Roger Hilgers, Eno Krojanker, Annika Serong, Matthias Weiland, Marie-Joëlle Wolf
Costumes: Emilie Cottam, Viola Streicher
Stage design: Céline Leuchter
Lighting, Sound: Michel Delvigne, Judith Thelen
Music: Gerd Oly

When: Oct. 30th 2012, 8.00 p.m. / Oct. 31st 2012, 7.00 p.m.
Where: T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4E
Entrance fee: Price category A
Length: 75 min
- - - - - - - - - - - - -

This performance is supported by: NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ in the framework of guest performance furtherance Theatre from the public purse of the federal government delegate for culture and media as well as the governmental departments of culture and arts of the federal states.