Maria Stuart

Author: Schiller, Friedrich von

Bantzer, Christoph

Wolbern, Werner

Mooshammer, Helmut

Wolff, Susanne

Dombrowski, Paula

Jordan, Peter

Schwarz, Asad

Hoevels, Daniel

Costume Designer: Rabes, Anja

Television Director: Schonhofer, Peter

Composer: Verhovec, Michael

Stage Director: Kimmig, Stephan

Set Designer: Hass, Katja

Lighting Designer: Vogel, Matthias

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Catalogue Number: THE10108

UPC: 4280000101082

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Fascinated by the fate of, according to contemporary witness, beautiful and passionate Maria Stuart, Friedrich Schiller planned already after the completion of Kabale and Love a drama about the Scottish Queen. For him, the challenge in working with the material was 'to see the catastrophe in the first scenes, and, as the plot of the play seems to move away from it, it becomes closer and closer'. Schiller's tragedy begins for three days before Maria Stuart's execution. It tells of the incarcerated and her attempt to avert the already announced death sentence. Meanwhile, various political camps struggle either for the liberation or for the speedy execution of the prisoners. Schiller's Queen's drama raises the question of the relationship between power and morality.

Director Stephan Kimmig staged the original text ironically. As accurate as he is in the language of Schiller, he places his production precisely in the fear that determines our present, which does not prevail in many places until after 9/11. The revolving stage is cool office world, prison and secret command centre.