2-JAHRES KONZEPT DER FLEISCHEREI „THE ART OF LIFE“

"The Only Reason to Produce Hamletmachine in 2009
is to Leave It Behind"
An Interview of director Eva Brenner by dramaturg Dan Friedman
(Dramaturg, Castillo Theatre)
- June 2009
© Ronald L. Glassman, HAMLETMACHINE 09 NYC
Friedman – What was your vision for the
production when you arrived?
Brenner – I didn’t arrive with a preconceived
notion. I only knew that I had a distance from
the author and the play. As I flew here on the
plane from Vienna I was thinking about all the
time that has passed since the play was written
and all the changes in attitudes toward it and
toward Heiner Müller. Hamletmachine is a
historic piece. That doesn’t mean it has lost its
impact but it’s entrapped in the historic period
of its creation, a period that is gone, that has
qualitatively transformed. I have attempted to
direct it in way that embodies that distance, but
does so in a loving and empathic way.
Friedman – What is the nature of the historic period it embodies?
Brenner – The play is an expression of failure—not only the failure of communism
and the white bourgeois feminist movement, but also the failure of the European
Enlightenment in general. It’s an articulation of the end of a rope. It’s sort of an End
Game. It has been compared to Beckett. It’s a postmodern End Game, if you wish.
Friedman – What is your attitude toward that failure?
THE ART OF LIFE
Einreichung an das Kuratorium Theater, Tanz, Performance
FLEISCHEREI – 2-Jahreskonzept [2011-2012]
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