Viel Larm um Nichts (Much Ado about Nothing)

Composer: Shakespeare, William

Television Director: Rossacher, Hannes

Lighting Designer: Rom, Friedrich

Masula, Michael

Hartinger, Dorothee

Ratjen, Jorg

Nickel, Christian

Ofczarek, Nicholas

Meyerhoff, Joachim

Poelnitz, Christiane von

Reinke, Martin

Stage Director: Bosse, Jan

Costume Designer: Plath, Kathrin

Set Designer: Laimé, Stéphane

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Catalogue Number: THE10109

UPC: 4280000101099

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The whole world is a stage - this sentence comes from Shakespeare himself, which could be considered the title of his complete oeuv e. And as a headline for our time. That's why it's all about the stage-like nature of love and being, in Jan Bosse's production of the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing. With a brilliant star ensemble, he takes on the big stage of the Vienna Burgtheater wide-awake and cheerfully trying to reconcile us somehow - and because there is no other way - with this world of beautiful appearance.

Two couples, who could not be more different, are juxtaposed: on the one hand, Claudio and Hero, who would rather marry today than tomorrow, though they hardly know each other and are hindered by the intrigues of the evil Don John. On the other side, the couple Beatrice and Benedict, who swore they would never, and under no circumstances, get involved with the opposite sex, but eventually marry.

For director Bosse, the story revolves around the first committed singles in theatre history in the world of a pseudo-idyl. The backdrop of the dream wedding hides only with difficulty the emptiness of "nothingness". An artificial world of surface, of illusion and illusion, created only for the removal of impulses for a society that would like to spend its holidays on its own. To admit love is more difficult than you think or want to make the theatre believe. But the viewer may enjoy the way the greatest playwright in world literature sketches people, true verbal erotes whose fetishes are wit and wit. From self-love, they inflate their ego so far that the true object of passion almost disappears from view. At the end of the comedy, the world of bewildering appearances wins.