Renate Jett
Heiner Müller, Quartett
A “tailor of genius” who transformed “splendid rags into masterpieces”, Heiner Müller plucked his two antiheroes from the 175th letter on of Laclos’ sensational epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) and rewrote the ending. Representatives of the libertine aristocracy and symbols of desire and lust who constantly intrigue and seduce, they bring an aura of romantic mourning and upper-class decadence to Quartett (1980), a work in which cynicism is pitted against poetry in a battle of words, the characters exchange roles at a relentless pace, and the coordinates of time and place swing between “a salon in pre-revolutionary France” and a “bunker in the wake of the Third World War”.
Having hosted Bob Wilson’s famous production last year, the Athens Festival has this year invited Renate Jett, a celebrated Austrian actress who has recently embarked on an extremely promising second career as a director, to stage the work with a Greek cast. [D.K.]
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