Reality Theater. The End of the Matthias Lilienthal Era at Berlin’s HAU Cover Image

Teatr z rzeczywistości. Koniec ery Matthiasa Lilienthala w berlińskim HAU
Reality Theater. The End of the Matthias Lilienthal Era at Berlin’s HAU

Author(s): Thomas Irmer
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Theatre; Performing Arts; Matthias Lilienthal; HAU Center in Berlin

Summary/Abstract: This article begins with a brief outline of the activities of the HAU Center in Berlin, the site of many alternative and bold plays and the debuts of many presently recognized German artists. The author describes the center’s latest project, directed by Matthias Lilienthal: an adaptation of the controversial Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, created as a sort of urban parcour, where every station is a different director’s attempt to create a fragment of the novel. This tactic is meant to strengthen the strand of the novel that seeks to disillusion and is critical of Western culture.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 111
  • Page Range: 150-153
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish