Deutsches Theater Berlin, Michael Thalheimer
Gerhart Hauptmann, The rats
The latest in a series of celebrated Berlin theatre companies invited to perform at the Athens Festival, the Deutsches Theater was founded in 1884. Under the guidance of Bernd Wilms (its director from 2001-2008) and Michael Thalheimer (former head of its team of directors) and with Oliver Reese (as director from 2008-2009), the theatre has remained true to its long tradition of excellence.
In Rats (1911), a pregnant maid agrees to sell her unwanted child to a woman who has just lost her own infant, but then changes her mind and demands her child back. In the play, Gerhard Hauptmann, a major exponent of German naturalist drama, dared to pen a relentless critique of the social conditions that oppress Man. The direction, performances and astonishing set propel this “Berlin tragicomedy” into the sphere of great theatre.
In German with Greek surtitles.
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Duration 1 hour and 40 minutes with no interval.
Peiraios 260
- 09/06/2009 at 21:00
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