Liebe - Haß, Sehnsucht - Überdruß, Leidenschaft - Langeweile, Männlichkeit - Weiblichkeit, Gesicht - Maske, Bewegung - Stillstand, Jugend - Alter, Leben - Tod... So unendlich viele Assoziationen zu Shakespeares SONETTEN. Die SONETTE werden nie an Geheimnis und Poesie verlieren.Robert Wilson, der zuletzt DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER im BE inszenierte, erweckt für seine Traumreise in den Kosmos Shakespeares 25 Sonette zum Leben. Er belebt sie mit Bildern und mit der betörenden Musik von Rufus Wainwright.

Jacques Reynaud - as for THREEPENNY OPERA - designed the costumes. Staged in Berlin in 2009 four hundred years after the publishing of the sonnets, SHAKESPEARE`S SONNETS shows the poet more modern and alive than ever. For this performance Jutta Ferbers has selected twenty-five amongst the one hundred and fifty-four sonnets written by Shakespeare, accepting the challenge to stage one of the English playwright`s rare works which was originally not written for the theatre. Wilson`s direction - in the usual perfection - plays ironically by mixing the genres. The extraordinary actors of the Berliner Ensemble act and sing: Anke Engelsmann, Traute Hoess, Ursula Höpfner-Tabori, Sylvie Rohrer and Georgios Tsivanoglou together with the young „stars” of the Ensemble Christopher Nell, Christina Drechsler, Anna Graenzer, Dejan Bućin, Sabin Tambrea and the legendary actors Inge Keller, Jürgen Holtz and Ruth Glöss bring the Bard`s immortal lines onto the set. Georgette Dee - famous German cabaret performer accompanied by an „angel” (Winfried Goos) - completes the set as master of ceremonies... Wilson stages several Shakespearean characters, from boy to fool, from Cupid to the mysterious dark lady, from the Queen of England to Shakespeare himself.
The director`s ability to „tell” the story by means of images puts himself at the service of Shakespeare`s verses. The music of Rufus Wainwright, who for this „opera” has invented different musical styles that contribute to accompanying the audience on a dreamlike journey beyond time.
Shakespeare: light and dark - a stage première which is already a classic.drucken