Salome

In Palestine shortly before the invention of Christianity, Herod Antipas rules as governor of the Roman occupying power. His influence is waning and he is threatened with the fate of a political lame duck - pressure from Rome, pressure from the streets, or rather from the desert, where an ever-growing crowd of fanatics is gathering around the radical Baptist John.

Herod celebrates a feast to give himself some breathing space. But his desire for Salome gives him, his court and above all Salome no peace. She prefers to stay outside the fortress. The desert holds the promise of emptiness and clarity, of clarity and purity. These thoughts take hold of Salome and later the entire court like an infection. But instead of order, fundamentalism brings ruin. Thomaspeter Goergen breaks out individual motifs from Oscar Wilde's original and thus drives the famous fin-de-siecle play into the dilemma of the present day - perversion and fundamentalism as the destructive mixture of diffuse fear and real power. Ersan Mondtag stages this escalation in a visually powerful and lustfully dark way: "The best are convinced of nothing, the worst are passionately obsessed." W. B. Yeats

Time

18. December 2024 – 18. January 2025

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