Gisèle Vienne / DACM – L’Étang (Der Teich)

A mysteriously eerie atmosphere awaits the audience. Seven figures sit or lie motionless in a semi-dark room. The moment the stage lights are turned on, loud music sounds from a radio, a woman appears and carries the figures away. Humans and dolls merge once again in this piece by Austro-French choreographer, director and puppeteer Gisèle Vienne: an adaptation of Der Teich, a flash play by Swiss author Robert Walser about a young man who can no longer endure his agonising family life. He fakes his suicide to see if anyone will mourn him. In Vienne’s version, the protagonist becomes a woman who is destroyed by her mother’s coldness and her sister’s wickedness. This is no ordinary drama but a poetic choreographic image act of the darkest depths of the human soul, most impressively portrayed by the award-winning actor Adèle Haenel and the no less fascinating dancer Julie Shanahan.

13.7.2023, 21:00
15.7.2023, 21:00

Duration: 85 Min
Price: 18 / 25 / 36 Euro
Reduced: 15 / 21 / 30 Euro

In English with German surtitles.
This performance contains loud music.
This performance contains explicit content. Recommended from the age of 14.