Die Brüder Karamasow is an exorbitant text in which one can lose oneself like in a forest at night. EVERYTHING is in it: the longing for love and the agony of desire, moral guilt and economic debt, violence and prayers and furtive kisses, reaching for the stars and falling into the void. A multitude of unhoused figures chase around like in a fever dream, incessantly on the move, both externally and internally, out of step, their balance gone, if they ever had it. Everything is displaced, out of control: adults are dancing on a knife's edge and pale children want to set the world on fire. When there is nothing left to lose, is everything permitted?
The plot could be boiled down to a lurid sex and crime story: At the centre are the Karamazows, a broken family based on dead mothers, all of whom suffered at the hands of their morally depraved father, Fjodor Karamazow, leaving behind four sons. The novel covers only a few days, when the father and his sons all clash again after years. When Fjodor is found murdered, each of the sons has a motive for the crime. But only one did it, and another is believed to be the murderer. Of course, money plays a role. And of course the most important driving force behind the events is (at least) one woman.
But Dostojewskij's characters reach into our souls not because of the complex criminal story or one of the most famous judicial errors in literary history. Rather, because they wonder, in all their contradictoriness but always at the top of their lungs, where freedom is to be found, and yet know nothing to do with it. Because they sweep the heavens empty and yet imploringly seek God. Because they love life and wish it to hell the next moment. Just like us. We take over the theatre with Dostojewskij's characters: stage, backstage and auditorium. A production lasting several hours, on the big stage of the Schauspielhaus and in the Kammerspiele, in corridors and foyers – a journey, a spectacle, a celebration, a haunting.
- Die Brüder Karamasow
- based on the novel by Fjodor M. Dostojewskij
- Director: Johan Simons
- With: Pierre Bokma, Jele Brückner, Konstantin Bühler, Dominik Dos-Reis, Gina Haller / Danai Chatzipetrou, Victor IJdens, Sascha Kühne, Oliver Möller, Anne Rietmeijer, Steven Scharf, Mina Skrövset / Davin Cakmak, Elsie de Brauw
- Place: Schauspielhaus
- Duration: ca. 7:00 mit mehreren Pausen
- First performance/Premiere: 14.10.2023
- Language: DE EN
Notes on attending the performance:
The evening, which lasts several hours, starts in the Schauspielhaus and continues in the Kammerspiele. As part of the production, there will be a dinner and several small breaks. The ticket price includes dinner including water; additional drinks or snacks during the smaller intermissions can be purchased separately from our theater catering.
14:00
Schauspielhaus
Free entry, plus costs for the included dinner: € 11.90
- Director: Johan Simons
- Director: Johan Simons
- Theatre version: Angela Obst
- Stage design: Wolfgang Menardi
- Costume design: Katrin Aschendorf
- Light design: Bernd Felder
- Sound design: Will-Jan Pielage
- Dramaturgy: Angela Obst
- Associate Dramaturgy: Marvin L. T. Müller
- Assistant director: Linda Hecker / Albrecht Schroeder
- Assistant stage design: Sascha Kühne
- Assistant costume design: Sophia Deimel / Jana Kuhlemeier
- Soufflage: Isabell Weiland / Jutta Schneider
- Speech coaching: Roswitha Dierck
- Stage manager: Nora Köhler / Ulrike Schaper , Christina Baston / Jonas Kissel
- Supertitle manager: Gianluca Elbert / Holger Rademacher , Leonie Mevissen / Jan Bednorz
- With: Pierre Bokma , Jele Brückner , Konstantin Bühler , Elsie de Brauw , Dominik Dos-Reis , Victor IJdens , Gina Haller / Danai Chatzipetrou , Oliver Möller , Anne Rietmeijer , Steven Scharf
- Child: Mina Skrövset / Davin Cakmak
- Camera: Sascha Kühne
Gefördert durch die Sparkasse Bochum
