Junge Nacht: “proteus 2481”

Visit to the performance of “proteus 2481” for young audiences (16–30 years) with artist talk and drinks directly after the performance. Register now at mitmachen@kammerspiele.de!

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 demcoratism 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