“The 13th Year”, the new production by the Signa group in Hamburg, takes the audience into a dark mountain world with strange inhabitants. A perfect simulation of “immersive theater” – ghostly and always sold out.
It is the setting of a horror film. A dark village in the mountains, surrounded by eternal fog, with strange figures in narrow huts that awaken from their torpor as soon as people appear. This crouched mountain settlement has 36 reasonably healthy residents, as well as many women and children who are wasting away with the mysterious fog disease. With their eyes always open, their faces frozen like a mask, the patients sometimes say things like: “I don’t like that” in a metallic voice. Otherwise, they are silent care cases that are easy to recognize as dolls.