Offene Probe „proteus 2481“

In the organizer's words:

Perhaps this is not reality, but with one or two changes it could be.

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 playwright, classical philologist and director 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 full of lies, exaggerations and jokes to finally put an end to these endless tragedies. A Mexican theater collective, a choir of visually impaired actors and musicians, actors from the Kammerspiele who speak Spanish and Ancient Greek and a free-lance team of stage, costume and music perform at their best to finally give contemporary tragedies back their satyr plays.

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 at the Kammerspiele for the first time.

"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