Salzburg Festival: Light Figure Instead of Human Enemy
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Posing, blaspheming, lying and rushing: Jette Steckel stages Molière's comedy at the Salzburg Festival "The Enemy of Man" as a hip-hop battle in the spirit of the times. Exciting? No, fad.
Fulminant: Director Jette Steckel and her team translated radical, colorful and feminist Molière's comedy into the present.
Premiere in Salzburg, soon in Hamburg: Jette Steckel stages Molière as HipHop Triptych. Is this a successful comeback?
The Salzburg Festival has a new audience appearance. On Saturday evening at the Landestheater Molieres, young and old celebrated the classic comedy "The Enemy of Man". It is about great philosophical themes and the central question of the Festival Summer: How do you love it right? Director Jette Steckel made it uncompromising theatre.
It begins with a sophisticated hip-hop concert and ends with a platitude-laden sermon on tolerance and emancipation: the arc that Jette Steckel spans with her new production of Molière's "The Misanthrope" is astonishingly wide. At the Salzburg Festival premiere of this largely intelligent and entertaining evening, which opens on September 18th at the co-producing Thalia Theater in Hamburg, there were many bravos and only a few boos on Saturday a…
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