A little game, you can only answer yes or no. May I invite you, show you my castle, kiss you? May my tongue explore your mouth? The questions keep getting more and more intrusive, the answers come more and more hesitantly, because only yes or no, both doesn’t work, maybe something in between, but the game doesn’t allow that. And attraction becomes tribulation. So escape, get out of the floating box, under which you could only see the lower half of the legs. It was just a rehearsal, but it doesn’t work that way, the director or acting partner or both can do it in a superior way. You’re welcome, gentlemen.
The nice thing about the “Bluebeard Variations”, the text of which Jochen Strodthoff compiled, partly wrote and then directed himself, is its subtlety. Bluebeard is the fairytale fiend who has made it into the opera, who haunts numerous stories, who lures women into his castle’s trap and kills them there. Strodthoff’s variations stay with the storytelling, the man’s power over the woman, his lurking lust for murder, the manipulative are also conveyed in this way.
In Thorsten Krohn’s production, Lucca Züchner has already given the cultural stage Spagat in Milbertshofen the award-winning abuse play “Kitzeleien”, which will be resumed at the beginning of November. Now they are both on stage, playing power and need, singing and telling stories. Jürgen Reiter has written very effective music for it, you can see him on the double bass in the video – the songs and especially the rap with which Züchner’s all-encompassing female character frees himself from the clutches of male murderous desires deserve their own album. The only strange thing about the evening is that the woman’s greed for locks and money remains unchallenged. Whereby: In the game alone, Züchner destroys them (until Sunday October 30th).