11 May 2014
Studio performance in the main hall
The urpremiere of
Schimmelpfennig’s production was in 2001 in Stuttgart,
following which it was staged in various other cities. The play is at once a
challenge to director and actor, since the contemporary text demands a specific
theatrical language. The arabian night is a plot of unrequited dreams, the
random meeting of five characters in a many storied apartment building’s
magical space. On the corridor of the seventh floor in 15 to right and 16 to
the left same apartments people live out their lives in a nameless, faceless
fashion. On this corridor, apartment 7-32 will be the magical place from where
the cast’s desires, dreams set out on a journey that brings a certain kind of
unavoidable fate for all of them.
Hans Lomeier
Kalil
Fatima Mansur
Franziska Dehke
Peter Karpat
Set and costume design:
Bocskai Gyopár
Directed by: Albu István