Arachne. Wahr sagen - von Janne Wagler

In the organizer's words:

Theater GOBELIN, Tübingen

A myth comes to life: Arachne, a masterful weaver from the common people, enters into a competition with the goddess Pallas Athena. Both weave - splendor and brilliance appear on the goddess's carpet. However, Arachne artfully reaches into a taboo: she exposes the well-known but unspoken shameful deeds of the gods on her carpet. Threats cannot stop her, the punishment follows: Athena, enraged, destroys Arachnes tapestry and transforms her into a spider.

In poetic images and inexorably, this 2000-year-old tale is interwoven with the fate of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who paid for her investigative work with her life in 2017 and exemplifies the fragile and threatened freedom of art and media.

By and with Janne Wagler
Directed by Frank Soehnle
Music: Bastian Kilper
Stage and puppetry: Janne Wagler
Lighting: Lars Wagler/ Theater GOBELIN

The HEIDELBERGER THEATERTAGE 2024 is organized by the Freie Theaterverein Heidelberg e.V. in cooperation with the Karlstorbahnhof e.V., the festival is funded by the City of Heidelberg via the Cultural Office and by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg via the Landesverband Amateurtheater Baden-Württemberg e.V.

Price information:

Box Office € 19.00 Advance booking € 18.60 Reduced prices: Advance booking € 10.90 / Box Office € 12