King Lear (in German)

Author: Shakespeare, William

Schwab, Martin

Minichmayr, Birgit

Bockmann, Gerd

Peters, Caroline

Nickel, Christian

Clausen, Andrea

Voss, Gert

Vetter, Adina

Vierboom, Moritz

Hering, Markus

Krisch, Johannes

Hauss, Philipp

Gempart, Michael

Pohl, Klaus

Composer: Saunders, Rebecca

Television Director: Schonhofer, Peter

Stage Director: Bondy, Luc

Set Designer: Peduzzi, Richard

Costume Designer: Sabounghi, Rudy

Lighting Designer: Bruguiere, Dominique

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Catalogue Number: THE10106

UPC: 4280000101068

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Of all the death dances of the theatre, that of King Lear is the virtuoso piece. The cheerful melancholy of old age makes the varnish, which lends its content to any production of the classical king's drama.

In the present production, two meet each other, who have previously proven that they have copied a lot of life: Luc Bondy and Gert Voss, grandees of the director and drama theatre, leftover of the last, the great theatre century. On the stage of the Burgtheater in Vienna they celebrate their Lear. Danced by a fool with Berlin snot on smock, Birgit Minichmayr as a congenial humorous poetic fish, Voss brings out the last battle, plays the great, the powerful instrument of his acting and wins the game in which he demonstrates losing, as we do Everybody will do it in the public armchairs: we lose our lives when we lose our love.

With King Lear, after two theater films, the theater edition is once again dedicated to the recording of a stage production that was created at the Vienna Burgtheater in 2007 by Peter Schonhofer: the dense, high-resolution observation of a finely crafted staging.

Wolfgang Bergman