Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome

It has been a long time since one has felt so strongly in the theatre that just a few symbols suffice to convey the unspeakable, the shocking – the imagination will do the rest. In contrast to this, images flicker in from outside: the conquest of the stage from the street. The association with the terrorist hostage-taking in the Moscow musical theatre comes to mind. Yet it soon becomes clear: this is less an occupation by violence than by swift assimilation. The Goths of yesteryear are the tourists, the entertainers of the present; the assumption of these roles goes off perfectly. Shakespeare’s bloody spectacle has become a radical mind game in Munich. And, thanks to an excellent cast, an event of primary theatrical nature.
Gerhard Jörder