When a director appears in front of the assembled audience, it usually doesn’t mean anything good. In most cases, illnesses, accidents and absenteeism then have to be announced. But Barbara Mundel only appears at the end of the almost four-hour premiere evening in the Munich Kammerspiele, after there has already been a very benevolent, sometimes really enthusiastic applause. Not only does she give an extra thank you to the (as always invisible) technology and announce a glass of free sparkling wine for everyone; Wrapped up in a chic scarf, she swears that the audience is getting ready for winter. That we may come, please, even if the heaters are turned down. A gathering of people radiates warmth and the theater radiates warmth through the stories it tells. Basically, she proclaimed the theater a warm room, independent of Putin’s gas.
Munich Kammerspiele: Ibsen’s “Nora” and Édouard Louis’ mother drama. – Culture
