Macbett

Pamela Dürr & Ensemble

Company
For this, her second directing experience, the young director Pamela Dürr has assembled a group of Swiss and German actors who are working together in this constellation for the second time.

Performance
Lady Duncan has a waving compulsion, whereas Duncan goes whirling around after his own rhetorical pirouettes and rolls thundering cannonballs across the empty stage. Macbett is Ionesco’s parody of Shakespeare’s dark drama of power and murder; it is a boisterous dance of death by antiheroes who wear themselves out in tumultuous battle, in a romp of intrigues, conspiracies and execution spectacles. Ubiquitous empty promises. Transgender, pale-faced figures adorned with long, fake eyelashes perform with intensity, vitality, humour and elegance – it is dramatic theatre at its best. The prospects for the world might be bleak as long as Ionesco’s sarcasm holds onto its explosive potential, yet where theatre is concerned, the prospects are looking decidedly more cheerful.

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Director: Pamela Dürr
Performers: Yangzom Brauen, Mark Fischer, Markus Mathis,
Sanne Schnapp, Fanny Staffa, Isabelle Stoffel
When: Sun., June 13th, 8 p.m.
Where: T-Werk
Duration: 60 Minuten