Kampf der Titanen

In the organizer's words:

Drama

Summer theater spectacle on Franklin
with scenes from Aeschylus to Sophocles
In German language

Fantasy meets antiquity: director Christian Weise stages an immersive theatrical spectacle at the Altes Kino Franklin - bizarre, absurd, tongue-in-cheek, Dionysian. In the "Clash of the Titans", Zeus attained his eternal rule and has ruled over mankind with the gods of Olympus ever since. Did his tyranny of our destiny ever come to an end? Playful and visually stunning, the evening draws on the whole of Greek mythology - a firework display of tragic fates, grotesque parables and timeless conflicts: from Gaia, Uranos and Zeus to Prometheus and Io to Dionysus, Perseus, Medea, Antigone, Oedipus, Orest and Electra. From the creation of the world to the abolition of the gods, set designer Alexander Naumann has created a cyan and magenta-coloured world of art for the three-week production at the Altes Kino Franklin that eliminates the separation between the auditorium and the stage. Titans, goddesses and heroes carry out their tragic conflicts in various settings - with masks and goths, in a parked car or in a wrestling ring. As with "Shakespeare Weltmaschine", which Weise staged in the summer of 2022 to mark its departure from the Theater am Goetheplatz, the audience can move freely through this world of their own and experience a theater evening full of direct and intense encounters with the entire acting ensemble. This content has been machine translated.