proteus 2481

In the organizer's words:

The long-lost fourth part of the Oresteia! We've been waiting thousands of years for it!

Thomas Köck has unearthed the fragment in Mexico. With a chorus of satyrs and Samuel Koch as the mythological quick-change artist Proteus, normal theater is turned on its head.

The Kammerspiele is presenting the sensational world premiere of a 2481-year-old play: "proteus 2481", the long-lost conclusion to the Oresteia! While traveling through Mexico, a classical philologist from Austria finds fragments of a Spanish-Latin text in the spine of a book, translates them, has an AI fill in the gaps and holds a hilarious satyr play by Aeschylus in his hands.

In times when tragedy has become omnipresent, nothing is more needed than a good old satyr play to finally bring the tragedies about the end of the demcoratia to a close.

A Mexican theater collective, a choir of cognitively and visually impaired actors and musicians, as well as actors from the Kammerspiele who speak Spanish and ancient Greek, question the conventions of theater in a satyrical party with Samuel Koch as the quick-change artist Proteus.

Thomas Köck's commissioned work for the Kammerspiele "Eure Paläste sind leer" was invited to the Autor*innentheatertage in Berlin and is now being directed for the first time at the Kammerspiele.

"A satyr play doesn't sound so tragic. The existential hopelessness in it becomes a celebration, and I was immediately struck by it the first time I read it in a small bodega in Veracruz."

- Thomas Köck, classical philologist and director

Price information:

Thu-Sat: 25€, Sun-Mi: 20€, under 30 years: 10€