Quartett

B.E.T.O.N.

Company
The actors of B.E.T.O.N. have joined forces especially for this production, which they have also financed themselves. Coming from various theatres throughout Germany, this is their first collaboration.

Performance
The battle, the struggle and the love: here Heiner Müller’s most frequently performed play is staged in a space that is empty bar a circle of thirty chairs; at once final circle and arena, it is here that Valmont and Merteuil transform their seemingly unbounded dangerous game of intrigue into powerful spoken arias, all with an air of refined bestiality and a delight in destruction. With the reduction and precision of its scenes, its stylised body language and rapid black-outs, this production declines to adhere to received interpretations, in which Valmont dies as a woman and Merteuil is ultimately victorious. Rather it brings forth an unexpected finale, underscoring Müller’s credo that Quartett was and is a reflex towards the problem of terrorism, with subject matter, with material that, on the surface, has nothing

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direction: Oliver Ernst
performers: Magdalene Artelt, Thomas Kienast
duration: ca. 80 Minuten
when: Saturday, June 28th, 7.30 p.m.
where: Waldschloss