Gespenster (DE/FR)
Are the apparitions ghosts from our past that poison our existence? Or are they the ones we resort to in order to avoid having to relate to life here and now?
Directed by Stéphane Braunschwig
Mrs Alving starts off as a victim who blames her late husband for the calamities that have befallen the family, but gradually she assumes the responsibility herself, for the disease that has struck down her son. When she wants to build an estate in memory of her husband, the chamberlain Alving, it is perhaps an effort to protect the son by building the ideal image of the father.
In Stéphane Braunschweig’s clean-cut direction Ibsen’s GHOSTS alternate between tragedy and neurotic comedy – depending on whether you believe in the ghosts or not. If one wants to escape tragedy one must not kill the ghosts, but have the courage to live with the ghosts everyone has within him- or herself.
Co-production between Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and Théâtre National de Strasbourg.
With: Regine Engstrand - Ruth Marie Kröger, Engstrand, a carpenter - Uwe Bertram, Pastor Manderss - Udo Samel, Mrs Helene Alving - Friederike Kramer, Osvald Alving - Daniel Christensen
Direction and set design: Stéphane Braunschweig. Costumes: Thierry Vancraenenbroeck. Lighting: Marion Hewlett. Make-up: Patricia Dietz. Dramaturge: Brigitte Fürle. Translation: Angelika Gundlach.