HEINER MÜLLER IN REPERTOIRE

Three of the brightest plays of the German playwright are gathered here, addressing the conflicts and concerns present in contemporary society. Heiner Müller incorporates techniques of theater of cruelty of Artaud, abandons the dialectic of dialogue by poetic dialectic of the fragment and the image, accentuating the intertextual density and the deconstruction of the fable.

SYNOPSES

Medeamaterial condenses the tragedy of Euripides on some short dialogues and a lengthy monologue of Medea, whose keynote is the brainchild of treachery, betrayal: from Medea to his people and his blood (kills the brother and throws his pieces into the sea, allowing the escape of Jason; Jason (abandons his foreign wife, barbarian, the daughter of the King of Corinth); children (cry up-on hearing the screams of death of the stepmother, form which is embellished with the Bridal dresses offered by Medea).

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Hamletmaschine is structured in five scenes that mirror, next to the tragedy of Hamlet of our time: the catastrophes of history and of Western culture and the crisis of the artist and intellectual, split between the desire to turn into a machine without pain or thoughts and need to be a historian of this hopeless time.

Description of Picture was inspired in a picture of one of Sofia’ students, where imperfections have given way to creativity spaces and the image “was covered with words”, more abstract. The text presents a dramatic reunion of look and image. Thus, more than an autoreflexive text about theater, Description of a picture is a reflection on the theatron, space of audience receiver, “contemplation place”.

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CREDITS

HEINER MÜLLER IN REPERTOIRE (MEDEAMATERIAL, HAMLETMASCHINE, DESCRIPTION OF A PICTURE)
Author – Heiner Müller. Direction and Lighting – Lenerson Polonini. Cast – Rosa Freitas, Ricardo Gelli, Melany Kern, Josefa Pereira, Giselle Petty, Marília Coelho e Denise Cortouké. Special Guest as the Off–Voice – Paulo César Pereio. Costumes and Make-Up – Carina Casuscelli.
Sound Track – Wilson Sukorski. Translation – Christine Röhrig e Marcos Renaux. Video Scenario Direction – Cristian Cancino. Movement Direction – Carolina Moreira. Choreography Associate – Josefa Pereira.  Production – Lenerson Polonini and Carina Casuscelli. Fotos / Photos – Henrique Bastos, Acauã Fonseca and Henrique Oda.

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