Kabale & Liebe
Drama by Friedrich Schiller, with: Marius Hubel, Sabrina Strehl, Ulrich Popp, Stefan Lehnen, Sascha Grüb, Jessica Higgins, Bálasz Várnai, director: Anna Malunat, costumes: Katja Krannich, dramaturg: Katrin Dollinger, lighting: Michael Bauer, Prinzregententheater Munich, 2004.
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Our production of Schiller’s classic drama investigates the communication structures between the characters. It is not their class differences that creates conflict, but their unwillingness to compromise a small part of their personal ideology and ambitions to accommodate other people living around them. Language is used as a tool to dominate others and to paint castles in the air. Miscommunication causes two fatalities. The stage set makes the audience a bystander to the dramatic events by rigorously removing the boundary between stage and auditorium.