Hugo von Hofmannsthal • Everyman

In German
Domplatz
In case of bad weather in the Grosses Festspielhaus

Duration of the performance: approx. 2 hours, no break

LEADING TEAM

Christian Stückl, Director
Marlene Poley, Sets and Costumes
Markus Zwink, Music

CAST

Peter Fitz, The Lord God
Clemens Schick, Death
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Devil
Peter Simonischek, Everyman
Elisabeth Trissenaar, Everyman's Mother
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Everyman's Good Companion
Peter Fitz, A Poor Neighbour
Friedrich Mücke, A Debtor
Britta Bayer, The Debtor's Wife
Johann Christof Wehrs, The Steward
Olaf Weissenberg, The Cook
Sophie von Kessel, Paramour
Heinz Zuber, Fat Cousin
Thomas Limpinsel, Thin Cousin
Gabriel Raab, Mammon
Elisabeth Rath, Good Deeds
Dennis Junge, Servant
Riederinger Kinder, The Narrators
Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor, Musical Direction

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Conversion does not take place through the recitation of pious formulas. This is the message that Christian Stückl places at the dramaturgical center of his revised version of Everyman (Jedermann). Jedermann's late insight of having missed the point of his own life becomes the turning point of his conversion – made possible and initiated by the trusting gaze of a woman. In this gaze, he sees that his life has not been judged summarily. In the end, that is the faith which is demanded of Jedermann: the conviction that God means well for him and his life, and will continue to mean well until the end. That the creator has placed his creature on a path, and will return him to that path, in spite of all his aberrations and mistakes. Conversion is more than turning around, it is returning home: arriving at one's own self, at the human core of being inherent in every person.
Josef Bruckmoser

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