After the tumult at a premiere in Bochum Playhouse Security forces are actually imagined to safe additional performances. After the incidents final Saturday, the choice was made to do that till additional discover, stated deputy director Angela Obst of the “Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung”.
The incident deeply shocked the ensemble and people concerned, the deputy theater director described in an interview. “No one could have predicted that such an attack would happen. We were together for a long time and talked a lot,” Obst continued. Booing, whistling or leaving the hall are acceptable ways to express one’s displeasure. “But a line was clearly crossed here.”
The manufacturing provokes controversial discussions
At the identical time, Obst defended the play by Portuguese creator Tiago Rodrigues and director Mateja Koležnik as sensible, but arduous political materials that would deliver the viewers into conflicts of conscience – with out aiming for a scandal. There was additionally an extended and controversial dialogue within the viewers discussions after the performances. “It’s wonderful when the theater is a place for political debate,” Obst advised the newspaper.
What occurred on the night time of the premiere
During a ten-minute “monologue of a fascist” on the finish of the play “Catarina or On the Beauty of Killing Fascists,” two viewers members tried to tug the actor Ole Lagerpusch off the stage. According to a theater spokesman, there have been scuffles. In the ultimate monologue, a fascist head of presidency provides a speech that turns into more and more radical and makes use of xenophobia, homosexual hatred and misogyny. The theater was deeply shocked and condemned “this transgression as completely unacceptable.”
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