The beginning is beautiful. Annette Kurz placed five white plastic balls on the otherwise empty stage, each about four meters in diameter, beautiful, round things that quickly take on meaning. Roulette. Wolfgang Pagel, the main character in Hans Fallada’s novel “Wolf Among Wolves”, is addicted to gambling, he was once a soldier, now he is nothing, life has become a strange game for him, a visit to the casino is the external expression of this . The five balls are in the middle of the revolving stage, around which the playing figures of this performance are grouped at some point, Pagel clears away the balls except for one, which swings around like a wrecking ball and clears away the figures. Like bowling pins.
Luk Perceval at the Thalia Theater: Hans Fallada’s novel “Wolf Among Wolves” – Culture
