Baal
Baal is ablaze. He scorches his life like a torch. Driven by lust and aversion, he bulldozes himself and the people who surround him through a life with no base. Society worships him as a poet and despises him as a person. He, in turn, sees nothing good, nothing of value in humankind. Baal, this ruthless anarchist, enchants us as a poet and cynically philosophical thinker who is destroyed by the amorality of the world and the abysses of life. "Baal’s art of living", Brecht explained in 1954, "shares the fate of all other arts in capitalism: It is met with hostility. He is antisocial, but in an antisocial society."
We regularly present performances of "Baal" with English surtitles. You can find the dates here. Our box office staff will be happy to tell you from which seats you will have a good sight-line to the surtitles. For the best view of both stage and surtitles, we recommend seats in the stalls (Parkett) from row 11, or in the balconies (1. Rang, 2. Rang). Seats in the side boxes have a partially obstructed view.
Casts & Staff
- Direction/Stage Design: Ersan Mondtag
- Cooperation Stage Design: Marcel Teske
- Costume Design: Ersan Mondtag, Annika Lu Hermann
- Music: Eva Jantschitsch
- Choral Direction: Jonas Grundner-Culemann
- Correpetition: Max Doehlemann
- Lighting Design: Ulrich Eh
- Artistic Consulting: Clara Topic-Matutin
- Video: Bahadir Hamdemir
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