Hugo von Hofmannsthal • Everyman
The Play of the Rich Man's Death
Renewal
In case of bad weather in the Grosses Festspielhaus
Duration of the performance: approx. 2 hours, no break
PREMIERE
- 29 July 2009, 20:30
- 01 August 2009, 20:30
- 05 August 2009, 20:30
- 13 August 2009, 17:30
- 14 August 2009, 17:30
- 15 August 2009, 17:00
- 17 August 2009, 17:00
- 19 August 2009, 17:00
- 22 August 2009, 17:00
- 24 August 2009, 16:30
- 27 August 2009, 16:30
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Christian Stückl, Director
Marlene Poley, Sets and Costumes
Markus Zwink, Music
Peter Fitz, The Lord God
Ben Becker, Death
Peter Jordan, Devil
Peter Simonischek, Everyman
Elisabeth Trissenaar, Everyman's Mother
Peter Jordan, 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
David Supper, Servant
Riederinger Kinder, The Narrators
Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor, Musical Direction
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 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