Lulu (Pandora's Box)

This Lulu is different. Director Michael Thalheimer has radically cut both the text and cast list to present the play as a hard, fast drama of child abuse and its consequences. He turns Wedekind’s male fantasy on its head. Here the men are as narrowly-conceived as Lulu normally is: they are sexually driven almost to the degree of parody. One look at her and they’re dropping their trousers. Fritzi Haberlandt doesn’t play a femme fatale or an innocently provocative child-woman. There is nothing attractive and certainly nothing erotic about her. Her attitude is more: do what you like with me, I don’t care. Her resistance is indifference. This is her response to the men’s attacks, Lulu, the abused child, the angel of revenge.
B.B.

“In Fritzi Haberlandt Michael Thalheimer has a Lulu of extraordinary presence and conviction.” (FR).