Der Theatermacher - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Such a sensitive spirit

in such a sensitive body.

The actor Bruscon is touring the Austrian provinces with his universal comedy The Wheel of History. Before the guest performance in the "Schwarzer Hirschen" in the small community of Utzbach, he inspects the hall where the performance is to take place. Despite the adverse circumstances - a run-down stage, emergency lighting that could not be extinguished for fire safety reasons and his family as a talentless ensemble - Bruscon remains convinced of his own genius. In his obsession with the perfect performance, however, reality soon catches up with him.

In Thomas Bernhard's classic Der Theatermacher, the demand for complete darkness becomes not only a symbol of the artist's overconfidence, but also a parable for the "hostility towards art" and the bureaucratic hurdles in Austrian society. As a metadramatic commentary on the theater scandal surrounding the premiere of Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige (The Ignorant and the Madman ), in classic Bernhard style no one escapes ridicule - neither the artist nor society.

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