the Zurich-based Google-employees have set up a Meeting with trade Union representatives through – against the opposition of the chief days: The Californian technology giant effort with the local workers ‘ rights.
After all: The location is luxurious in comparison to the 1930s, when the California fruit and giant Cotton their harvest to the most brutal conditions, drudgery left and trade Union activists literally for launch releases. In John Steinbeck’s novel-Grosstat “grapes of wrath” from 1939 one of the collects for the local migrant workers and members of their emaciated children, the voice is beaten to death, easily.
We Prince of Bel-Air
How can we meet the deadly conditions of then and now, if our own luxury, we are confronted only at a high level with global injustice and capitalist inhumanity? This is the question Director Christopher Rüping now in his Steinbeck-adaptation. Rüpings “grapes of wrath” on Friday in the peacocks harvested, the long-awaited first in-house-production of the Schauspielhaus Zürich under the direction of Nicolas Stemann and Benjamin von Blomberg, and this fruit is oh, so sweet! The Tears Are Saved.
at The start of Benjamin Lillie, and Kotoe Karasawa rapping as the theme song of the Sitcom “fresh Prince of Bel Air” – the cocky hero of the move to the sunshine state of California gave as you know, the happy turning. And Steven Sowah animates the peacocks audience to clap along.
So the unit can be in a very good mood by a five-member, self-proclaimed Gucci-gear – the nonchalant together with neon-colored clothes of Nike Chanel diced, up, up, Gucci, walk (costumes: Lene shrinkage) – in the world economic crisis, a shaken, dried-up the U.S. state of Oklahoma. You are not ready for theatrical misery tourism office obbligato sense of shame Chen: Full of cunning, as the Director of the year 2019, plays only with the social-critical novel of the California Nobel prize winner, but ostentatiously with us!
Oklahoma is a hungry hell, full of dust, and Tom (Nils Kahnwald) can’t help his family as well.
In the dust – or the art fog-filled hunger hell the members of the family Joad forms a sculpture of the Emergency. Instead of colorful, you wear Black: In the case of Maja Beckmann’s strong, Ma Joad, and her pregnant, 17-year-old daughter Rose (Nadège Kanku), it was the ankle-length dresses and chunky shoes of the peasant woman from the 1930s; a simple Büezer Outfit it is the on parole from the jail, dismissed son Tom. Nils Kahnwald, actor of the year 2019, the Fragility of the word young man barren, to be felt. It tires him of the title the grapes of wrath, although he was weeding in his soul and weeding and cross good want to stay, to be able to the family to help.
every year withered the grain, and the Joads have lost the lease. That’s why you, as a dog thrive thousands of other destitute “Okies”, to the Land where milk and honey flow, so oranges and peaches.
rings, The Joads and die.
The fruits are in the stage of Jonathan Mertz, such as in the life of the Joads, however, mere castles in the air, more precisely: balls, from which soon the air will be like from the native American promise of happiness. The Joads struggle, and die: grandpa and grandma not survive the Trip to California, Roses man steals on the go, the hull family in a vegetative state, finally, in the camp, labor on the plantations, the Baby comes dead to the world. And Tom, the rubs the fight against the exploitation of waste, needs to flee.
In this Jeremiad, the Gucci Gang-members of’ cut, among them Gottfried Breitfuss and Wiebke Mollenhauer, as a Memory-Jockeys, and the narrator again and again, bitter-California-Standards such as “California Dreamin”. Try also fuzzy Cover versions, collaging the acclaimed Barmherzigkeits-the parable of “The Egg” of the Californian Andrew Weir in the nearly three-hour Soiree and switch from time to time as a callous radio journalists in between the a couple of O-tones in the filthy Camp, the migrants to collect social parasites.
The hippt and hoppt
Rüping presents Steinbeck’s leg hard and still image to achieve high-literary novel, which was vilified at the time by some as Communist Agitprop, with a medial, and musical quotation and sampling. The hippt and hoppt and still has the Aura of high culture. Of course not, your Depth of field.
On the stage pages of the wonderful original English appears in the text, where we get drunk uncontrollably. On the boards, the Joads suffer in your endless loop of Woe and go slogans (“It is”) and we howl, the torrents, where the tears suppress (“Pa” and several other figures were sent out in surgery). And on the ramp in the Gucci-gear makes your faxes. It refers to the unbridgeable distance between the Homo ludens in the comfort zone and the marginalized, the exploited workers – from Okie on the Fruit plantation to the Bangladeshi textile factory.
the Golden glitters of the cactus, and Rose dreams of a better life.
You wont be here, so to speak, a happy-ironic shabby chic. But in the course of the Evening smooth out the peel from the peach narrative theatre with the moral claim for conscious political discretion, with the decidedly superficial Entertainment elements and more subcutaneous emergency moments, a serious figure of love, and a growing ensemble spirit.
Steinbeck’s mother Courage – Brecht’s piece is a decade also arose after the 1929 stock market crash, lose your family; but she recovers at the end of the length in itself is sunken subsidiary: As Nadège Kankus Rose for your fellow human beings awake, a Starving Marie your milk plump breast presents, where “her lips mysterious smile”, (and not only) there is also a theatre, God smiles.
Created: 27.10.2019, 02:12 PM
