"H" 100 seconds to midnight

After more than 20 years and many successful Thalia productions, Robert Wilson is back. However, he is not staging musical theater, but returning to his avant-garde origins in New York minimal art. With composer Philip Glass and choreographer Lucinda Childs, he has brought two partners from his early years on board. In the midst of the pandemic, we talked about the human species - about our sensitive vulnerability and the vast spaces of human imagination, about our stumbling and our ability to fly. We like to see ourselves as the center, and yet we are just a tiny grain of sand in a cosmos of millions of galaxies. A man like Stephen Hawking, of all people, who had to deal with a major handicap, was tirelessly traveling through space with his mind, exploring galaxies, black holes and the "Big Bang" and asking questions about questions: questions of all of us. At the same time, he warned humanity about the "deadly sins" of civilization and yet remained an optimist about the future - an icon of humanity and a pop star. The Doomsday Clock has nevertheless moved forward to 100 seconds to midnight.

In the Lebanese author and painter Etel Adnan, we have found a great poet whose work is interested in questions of the cosmos and space travel, galaxies and space-time.

Duration 2h, no intermission

premiere September 9, 2022, Thalia Theater