Schwanengesang

In the organizer's words:

Swan Song

Tragicomedy based on a story by Anton Chekhov

About the play

The old provincial actor Svetlovidov has fallen asleep drunk in the theater after a performance. Now he wanders across the empty stage at night. He is joined by the young prompter Ivanych, who has no home and always spends the night at the theater. With him as his partner in need, the old actor sums up his life, thinks aloud about the great roles of world literature and lets the magic of the theater blossom while playing various scenes.

The play is adapted by the team and set in relation to Erik's own career, which began in 1984 in the GDR and continued with 35 years of intensive theater work in the bremer shakespeare company. The young prompter Iwanytsch is played by Ilja Roßbander who, after completing his acting studies at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich, was mainly active as an actor in film and television productions. The joint stage appearance of father and son is a novelty in Bremen. Director Thomas Weber-Schallauer has already staged several Shakespeare plays and others at the bremer shakespeare company, including "Pericles" (2013), "Love's Labour's Lost" (2011) and "As You Like It" (2015).

Cast

Director: Thomas Weber-Schallauer
Stage/costumes: Heike Neugebauer
With: Erik Roßbander, Ilja Roßbander

With the kind support of the Rotary Club Bremen-Weser, the Stiftung Schwule Freunde Bremen and the Nicolaus Heinrich Schilling Stiftung

Price information:

PREMIERE 11.04. normal: 28 € reduced: 15 € further performances: normal: 25 € reduced: 14 € Free admission for students of the University, HS and HfK Bremen as well as HKS Ottersberg