Beach. In the front there is a bit of light sand, underneath there is a hard, light floor, in the back there are two more columns, antiquity. Curtains form alleys on the side, like on an old stage. And there is music everywhere, creamy kitsch music that seems as if it has no beginning and no end, is always there, like the two characters. One is Thetis, nymph and mother of Achilles, the great hero who sought eternal glory before Troy and received it, according to the will of the gods. Thetis is Gala Othero Winter, who plays an old woman with great enthusiasm, full of glamour, chains and Bulgari sunglasses, she shuffles through the sand with crooked feet, unfolds a deck chair, takes her time, because she has time, since for many years now. Then Odysseus comes hopping in, i.e. Jörg Pohl, who looks like the tennis player John McEnroe, very fit, very eighties, wearing a tracksuit.
“Achilles – a piece with heels” at the Theater Basel: The heroes are dead – culture
