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In a time between past and future wars, between failed revolutions and flickering hopes, members of high and low society gather in the gambling den of Roulettenburg. They are bound together by a web of mutual dependencies: debt, intrigue, love, jealousy and, above all, money.
A penniless Russian general who has fallen for a supposed noblewoman from France; his stepdaughter Polina, whose secrets you would rather not know; the compliant tutor Alexei, who cannot refuse her any request; and all the shady characters from East and West who crowd around the casino tables: They are all waiting for redemption, whether in the form of a big win or the prospect of an inheritance that will solve all their problems at a stroke and throw open the door to the future. But when, instead of news of the death of the rich heiress, she suddenly appears herself and immediately falls prey to the rush of roulette, the game becomes an end in itself and the world shrinks to the absolute present of that little marble, which spins dizzyingly before coming to rest by chance.
Information about the piece
- Gambler
- after Fjodor Dostojewskij
- Director: Johan Simons
- With: Django Gantz, Stefan Hunstein, Victor IJdens, Stacyian Jackson, Karin Moog, Genevieve O´Driscoll, Abenaa Prempeh, Carla Richardsen, Alexander Wertmann, Lukas von der Lühe
- Place:
- Premiere: 27.09.2025
- Language: DE EN
Performances
Participants
- Director: Johan Simons
- Director: Johan Simons
- Stage design: Johannes Schütz
- Collaboration stage: Daniel Gantz
- Costume design: Kevin Pieterse
- Video: Voxi Bärenklau
- Light design: Bernd Felder
- Soundtrack: Tristan Wulff
- Dramaturgy: Moritz Hannemann
- Assistant director: Leonie Mevissen
- Assistant stage design: Lukas Kötz, Sascha Kühne
- Assistant costume design: Anna Holtkamp
- Assistant video: Sascha Kühne
- Trainee director: Josephine Frederking
- Prompter: Isabell Weiland
- Stage manager: Nora Köhler
- Supertitle manager: Anette Nierhoff
- Alexej Iwanowitsch, Home tutor: Alexander Wertmann, Victor IJdens
- General, retired: Stefan Hunstein
- Polina Alexandrowna, his stepdaughter: Abenaa Prempeh
- Mademoiselle Blanche de Cominges : Stacyian Jackson
- Antonida Wassiljewna Tarassewitschewa, grandmother: Karin Moog
- Marquis des Grieux: Carla Richardsen
- Mister Astley: Lukas von der Lühe
- Croupier: Django Gantz
- Double bass: Genevieve O´Driscoll