Histoire de la violence
Im Herzen der Gewalt
Édouard Louis, Thomas Ostermeier
Christmas 2012, Édouard meets Reda, a young and good looking Kabyle. He invites him home and they spend a passionate night. Then the tryst becomes a nightmare. Reda turns violent, attacks Édouard, rapes him and tries to strangle him.
Thomas Ostermeier, director of the Schaubühne in Berlin, has taken Édouard Louis’ second autobiographical novel and collaborating with the author, has adapted the text for theatre. He has maintained the literary mechanisms of the book and has highlighted them by projecting images captured on the actors’ mobile telephones onto the almost completely bare set which serves as apartment, hospital, police station, street, and Édouard’s sister’s apartment. Thus the director visually translates the essential subjects of the book: outpourings of rage and suffering; violence and societal homophobia; racism experienced by Reda: all together the roots of evil.
With the support of the Goethe-Institut Brüssel
Calendar
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- 20:15
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- 20:15
Midi de la poésie / Édouard Louis - 12:40
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- 20:15
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- 20:15
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- 15:00
Kids Brunch from 12:00
Information
Language
de, surtitles fr
Venue
Grande Salle
Duration
120’
Surrounding the show
Kids Brunch 26.01.2020 - from 13:00
Cast
Direction
Thomas Ostermeier
From
Histoire de la violence de Édouard Louis
Collaboration Direction
David Stöhr
Set and costume design
Nina Wetzel
Music
Nils Ostendorf
Video
Sébastien Dupouey
Dramaturgy
Florian Borchmeyer
Lighting design
Michael Wetzel
Collaboration choregraphy
Johanna Lemke
With
Christoph Gawenda
Laurenz Laufenberg
Renato Schuch
Alina Stiegler
Musician
Thomas Witte
Production
Schaubühne
Co-production
Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, St. Ann’s Warehouse Brooklyn
With the support of
Lotto Stiftung Berlin, Goethe-Institut Brüssel
