CANCELLED: RICHARD III

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DATE AND VENUE

17.11.2017, 20.00
18.11.2017, 15.00
Zorlu PSM Drama Stage

Lasts app. 165’; no intermission.
German with Turkish surtitles.

SCHAUBÜHNE BERLIN

  • Written by: William Shakespeare
  • Translation and Version: Marius von Mayenburg
  • Directed by: Thomas Ostermeier
  • Set Design: Jan Pappelbaum
  • Costume Design: Florence von Gerkan
  • Collaboration Costume Design: Ralf Tristan Scezsny
  • Music: Nils Ostendorf
  • Video Design: Sébastien Dupouey
  • Dramaturgy: Florian Borchmeyer
  • Light Design: Erich Schneider
  • Puppets: Ingo Mewes, Karin Tiefensee
  • Puppeteers Training: Susanne Claus, Dorothee Metz
  • Stage Combats: René Lay
  • Performers: Lars Eidinger (Richard III), Moritz Gottwald (Buckingham), Eva Meckbach (Elizabeth), Jenny König (Lady Anne), Sebastian Schwarz (Hastings, Brakenbury & Ratcliff ), Robert Beyer (Cates: Margaret & First Murderer), Thomas Bading (Edward, Lord Mayor of London & Second Murderer), Christoph Gawenda (Clarence, Dorset, Stanley & Prince of Wales -as puppet-), Laurenz Laufenberg, Bernardo Arias Porras (Rivers & York -as puppet-),Thomas Witte (Drummer)

We regret to inform our audience that the play has unfortunately been cancelled upon the company’s last minute decision.

Ticket holders can either exchange their tickets for another festival performance or apply for refunds by contacting the sales points where the ticket purchases had been made (İKSV or Biletix) until 31 December 2017.

Who else would have thought about making a punk star, a stage acrobat and a sharp-tongued comedian out of Richard III, the most villainous king in the history of theatre? The provocative and boundary pushing director of contemporary theatre Thomas Ostermeier, after taking world stages by storm with his energetic, offbeat, bold and topical portrait of Shakespeare’s countlessly interpreted character, is now the guest of Istanbul Theatre Festival. Oblivious to the catastrophe that Richard will inflict upon them, Ostermeier makes the debauched royals of York dressed in ostentatious attire take the stage in front of a decaying, plastered decor. Meanwhile, with his knock knees, hunched back, and dental braces, Richard is plotting a great destruction against the society that mercilessly mocks him. He eventually redirects his hatred, unquenched by his cunning victories that claimed the lives of many including his own family, to his eternal enemy: Himself. Ostermeier describes the play as a study in evil and he doesn’t shy away from making the audience complicit in murder. Performed by the players of the renowned Schaubühne Berlin under the direction of Ostermeier, a stripped down text translated meticulously into German prose poetry, and high voltage live music, Richard III is one of the cornerstones of this year’s Festival.

After the Play: Q&A with director and performers (17 November)

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