Drei Schwestern - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Drei Schwestern
The three sisters Masja, Olga and Irina dream of a more exciting life in the Russian provinces: “To Moscow!” While society is in upheaval, they persist in fear of their own finiteness and in the fear that their lives will change won't change. For them, the future remains the great promise. Nobody knows what it will bring.
The classic THREE SISTERS has been staged by Anton Chekhov since 1901 and is often interpreted as evidence of the decadence of pre-revolutionary bourgeois society. Again and again the protagonists are called onto the stage to see how they long to be able to escape their presence. "Is this now? - It's a story that happened yesterday, but I know it's tomorrow. "
Susanne Kennedy wants to free the sisters from their unfulfilled longing and suggests a change of perspective: What if time is a circle and we will live every single moment of our life over and over again? For Nietzsche, the idea of eternal return meant always being ready - absolute affirmation.
Perhaps people are fundamentally not the producers of their destiny. Perhaps completely different forces are involved. If, following Nietzsche, we lived as if we had to repeat life endlessly, would we make other decisions? Influenced less by the desire to control the future than by the desire for liberation?
Under the conditions of the pandemic, Kennedy's view of the THREE SISTERS and their imprisonment in the repetition has become even more explosive. Without this horizon of meaning having been taken into account when this production was created.
After successful performances at the Münchner Kammerspiele, DREI SCHWESTERN moves into the repertoire of the Volkstheater. Her tricky historical-philosophical reinterpretation of this classic material - in a scenography by Lena Newton, which has been recognized by the critics of the specialist journal Theater heute - is thus being seen for the first time in Vienna. As a prelude to a long-term collaboration with Susanne Kennedy.
Subject to changes.
The classic THREE SISTERS has been staged by Anton Chekhov since 1901 and is often interpreted as evidence of the decadence of pre-revolutionary bourgeois society. Again and again the protagonists are called onto the stage to see how they long to be able to escape their presence. "Is this now? - It's a story that happened yesterday, but I know it's tomorrow. "
Susanne Kennedy wants to free the sisters from their unfulfilled longing and suggests a change of perspective: What if time is a circle and we will live every single moment of our life over and over again? For Nietzsche, the idea of eternal return meant always being ready - absolute affirmation.
Perhaps people are fundamentally not the producers of their destiny. Perhaps completely different forces are involved. If, following Nietzsche, we lived as if we had to repeat life endlessly, would we make other decisions? Influenced less by the desire to control the future than by the desire for liberation?
Under the conditions of the pandemic, Kennedy's view of the THREE SISTERS and their imprisonment in the repetition has become even more explosive. Without this horizon of meaning having been taken into account when this production was created.
After successful performances at the Münchner Kammerspiele, DREI SCHWESTERN moves into the repertoire of the Volkstheater. Her tricky historical-philosophical reinterpretation of this classic material - in a scenography by Lena Newton, which has been recognized by the critics of the specialist journal Theater heute - is thus being seen for the first time in Vienna. As a prelude to a long-term collaboration with Susanne Kennedy.
Subject to changes.
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