The show „Spring
Awakening” by Frank Wedekind, directed by Charles Muller,
will premiere at the German State Theatre Timișoara (GSTT)
Saturday, the 12th of November 2016, at 19,30.
The following
show is scheduled for
Sunday, the 13th of November 2016, at 19,30.
The performances
will be held in the hall of the German Theatre and features translation to
Romanian.
The
set design for the show is signed by Helmut Stürmer, costumes by
Ioana Popescu and light-design by Philippe Lacombe. The soundtrack
is composed by Miruna Boruzescu. The cast features actors: Richard
Hladick, Radu Vulpe, Ioana Iacob, Silvia Török, Enikő Blénessy, Radu Brănici,
Rareș Hontzu, Niko Becker, Aljoscha Cobeț, Harald Weisz, Horia Săvescu, Isa
Berger, Ioana Nițulescu, Oana Vidoni, Franz Kattesch, Konstantin Keidel,
Daniela Török, Boris Gaza, Isolde Cobeț, Cristian Rudic and Ida
Jarcsek-Gaza.
Frank Wedekind processed the morality befitting urges,
life into his plays. He unmasked it as hypocrisy and set it in front of a
vision of the world that celebrates life and sexuality. The freedom and beauty
of the people that embrace sexuality was only found in the socially excluded:
the circus, crooks and whores, even if they appear in a distorted form. The
play „Spring Awakening” maintains it’s actuality „because prejudices long
thought gone as well as double hypocritical morality still haunt or day to day,
through our society, through politics, religion and last but not least through
today’s political correctness”, considers the show’s set designer, Helmut
Stürmer.
Charles
Muller was born in Luxembourg in 1953, starting his career as a director in
1984. Between 1980 and 2004 he taught at the Theatre Faculty within the Music
University in Saarland, at the State Music and Performance Arts Academy in
Stuttgart and at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. Since September 2004, Charles
Muller is the Director of the Esch-sur-Alzette Municipal Theatre in Luxembourg.
About this show, director Charles Muller declared: „Ultimately,
Wedekind’s play brings the thematic and consequence of lying to centre stage.
Even now, there’s stress from the ever rising demands, despite the Internet and
the general «enlightenment». Moritz dies because of an over-dose of stress
caused by the increasing demands and Wendla is lied to in every possible way up
until her death. Nothing new it seems, about our world.”
Andreea Andrei - PR Secretary
Schinderman Gabriela - Secretary
Photo: The poster for the show “Spring Awakening”, a
GSTT production. The image can be used in mass-media and promotional purposes,
including electronic media