Allegedly, love is a heavenly power, but the earthly lust for power often points the way to mental hell. Especially when the greedy killer isn’t up to the task. Like Macbeth. And Lady Macbeth for instigating it. The strong, powerful love that electrifies and eroticizes the two Macbeths gradually loses its heavenly magic under the influence of the shameful act – the murder of the Scottish king Duncan. Great tenderness gives way to great disruption, romance to madness. The attainment of supreme royal power is followed by the great fall. “He comes out even stronger, even more emotional in the new production,” says Bernd Seidel. The director, who has been staging his premiere performances in Ottobrunn’s Wolf-Ferrari-Haus for many years, has again turned to the famous Shakespearean material this year.
“The Great Case of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth” premieres in Ottobrunn on Saturday, November 5th. It is a modified new edition of the celebrated play that Seidel and his acting ensemble from the Kreativ-Akademie showed three years ago: albeit with a larger cast, some with new sets and some changes in the plot up to a different ending. Instead of a narrator who dominantly flanks the two protagonists – again played by Caroline Betz and Patrick Gabriel – this time two other actors (Stephan Gerster, Marvin Schmidt) will accompany the tragic plot frame, which is compressed to 90 minutes, both narratively and playfully.
The intensity of the relationship between the lady embodied by Betz and her husband (Gabriel) should be accentuated even more clearly. “It will be exciting, physical and archaic,” promises Seidel, “pure theatre.” The director, who also acts as the artistic advisor to the Wolf Ferrari House, is known for his dynamic, sensually choreographed theatre. Seidel announces “dynamics that get under your skin”. There are also intermediate texts that were newly written by Peter Spies and Seidel. The backdrop – a large movable heart and oversized chairs – promises a lot. The external effort remains within limits: “There are no frills,” emphasizes Seidel. But live music: The accordionist Michaela Dietl composed it and will also perform it.
If you want to look at the case of the Macbeths, you can do so not only in Ottobrunn. After the performance in the Wolf-Ferrari-Haus on November 5th (starting at 7.30 p.m.), there will be another performance in the Pullach community center on November 8th and several performances in the “Theater and so on” in Munich (9th, 10th, 11th and 12th). . and November 12), and then again in the district of Munich: in the Garching community center (November 17) and in the small theater in Haar (November 20). Further information and tickets are available from the websites of the houses mentioned.