By Aeschylus and Thomas Köck
A Satyr play
The long-lost fourth part of the Oresteia! We’ve been waiting thousands of years for it! — Thomas Köck has unearthed the fragment in Mexico. With a chorus of satyrs and Samuel Koch as the mythological quick-change artist Proteus, the normal theatre is turned on its head.
The Kammerspiele is presenting the sensational premiere of a 2,481-year-old play, “proteus 2481”, the long-lost conclusion of the Oresteia! On a trip through Mexico, a classical philologist from Austria finds fragments of a Spanish-Latin text in the spine of a book. He translates them, lets an AI fill in the gaps and has a hilarious satyr play by Aeschylus in his hands.
In times when the tragic has become omnipresent, nothing is missing like a good old satyr play to finally bring the tragedies about the end of democratism to a close.
A Mexican theatre collective, a choir of cognitively and visually impaired actors and musicians, as well as actors from the Kammerspiele ensemble who speak Spanish and ancient Greek, question the conventions of theatre in a satyrical party with Samuel Koch as the quick-change artist Proteus.
Thomas Köck’s commissioned work for the Kammerspiele, “Eure Paläste sind leer” (Your Palaces Are Empty) was invited to the Autor*innentheatertage in Berlin. He is now directing at the Kammerspiele for the first time.
“A satyr play does not sound so tragic. It turns existential hopelessness into a celebration and that immediately captivated me when I first read the play in a small bodega in Veracruz.”
– Thomas Köck, classical philologist and director
Supported by the Goethe-Institut.
We would like to thank the Fördergesellschaft der Querschnittsgelähmten in Deutschland and Prof. Dr. Rainer Abel, Markus Ziegler and Neuro element(z) GmbH Rosenheim, the Neuro Robotik Zentrum München and Hocoma AG, as well as Volker Brenner for their support.
- With Katharina Bach, Johanna Eiworth, teatro bola de carne (Bernardo Gamboa & Micaela Gramajo*), Samuel Koch
- * Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores De Arte
- Choir & "Blindgänger" of the SWW Lourdes De Melo, Manfred Gutermann, Matthias Hartmann, Alexander Kern, Stephan Larro, Liridona Meter, Gizem Sahin, Jörg Schiener, Markus Wiedemann
- Directed by Thomas Köck
- Stage Design Barbara Ehnes
- Costume Design Martin Miotk
- Music Andreas Spechtl
- Lighting Design Stephan Mariani
- Dramaturgy Viola Hasselberg, Anna Laner
- Choreography (Choir & "Blindgänger" of the SWW) Sacha Anema
- Assistant to the Director Constanze Nogueira Negwer
- Assistant Set Designer Sichi Li (Vorbereitung), Hans Werner
- Assistant Costume Designer Rafael Hinz
- Stage Management Julia Edelmann
- Prompter Daphne Chatzopoulos
- Choir direction (Choir & "Blindgänger" of the SWW) Jörg Kurz, Nathalie Kurz
- Artistic Production Management (Choir & Blindgänger of the SWW) Kunigunde Frey
- Directing Intern Ronja Eder, Orkan Aydin
- Costume Design Intern Camille Mick
- Surtitles Yvonne Griesel (SPRACHSPIEL)
- Spanish Translation Eva Salom (PANTHEA)
- Artistic Production Management Victoria Fischer, Maja Polk
- Artistic Production Assistant Josh Menges
- Technical Production Management Jonas Pim Simon
- Stage Master Marcel Homack
- Stage machinery Stephan Preusser
- Signal Box William Grüger, Michael Pohorsky
- Lighting Yongwoo Kwon
- Lighting Fitter Horst Weissmann
- Sound Marian Rasch, Quirin Schacherl, Thomas Schlienger
- Video Dirk Windloff
- Make-Up Caroline Montfort, Nicola Richter-Okegwo, Mai Strathmann
- Costumes Arite Pissang, Nico Vanni
- Props Wolfgang Staudinger
- Carpentry Ellen Bosse, Michael Buhl, Wolfgang Mechmann, Sebastian Nebe, Josef Piechatzek, Franz Wallner
- Metalworkers Andreas Bacher, Jürgen Goudenhooft, Fritz Würzhuber
- Decorations Anja Gebauer, Tim Hagemeyer, Maria Hörger, Lisann Öttl
- Scenic Painting Salvatore van den Busken, Evi Eschenbach
- Stage Equipment Andreas Böheim, Patrick Rummel, Richard Baumann, Leon Popp, Frank Beyer, Andreas Merkl, Torsten Czekala, Manuel Balog
- Backstage extras Karim Aldiri, Max Faatz , Dima Wolf
- Performance Rights © Suhrkamp Theater Verlag, Berlin
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“… charming, lively, stage-baroque, peppered with philosophy and with enormously playful and vocal comrades-in-arms, that the premiere audience (…) lay at his feet after 75 rousing minutes (…).”