LÄRM. BLINDES SEHEN. BLINDE SEHEN
Elfriede Jelinek’s latest text connects the media’s „noise“ surrounding all things relating to the pandemic with the ancient myth of Odysseus and the enchantress Circe, who invites the homeward-bound Greeks to a feast on her island and serves them a strange potion that turns them into swine.
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ÖSTERREICHISCHE ERSTAUFFÜHRUNG
LÄRM. BLINDES SEHEN. BLINDE SEHEN Elfriede JelinekRegie: FRANK CASTORF
Bühne: ALEKSANDAR DENIĆ
Kostüme: ADRIANA BRAGA PERETZKI
Musik: WILLIAM MINKE
Video: ANDREAS DEINERT
Licht: LOTHAR BAUMGARTE
Dramaturgie: SEBASTIAN HUBER
Künstlerische Produktionsleitung: SEBASTIAN KLINK
But haven’t men always been swine? Weren’t they the ones who facilitated the spread of the virus in Ischgl and beyond? All the way to the massive abattoirs, where pigs are processed into food on a huge scale? Elfriede Jelinek has written a sharp-sighted text about how little we (want to) understand our situation and about the noise we make in doing so.