THE NIGHT IN LISBON
THE NIGHT IN LISBON
NATIONALTHEATER
MANNHEIM, GERMANY
Duration 3 hours, including one break
Director Maxim Didenko
Premier will took place on 27 September 2024
CREATIVE TEAM
Author of the novel Erich Maria Remarque
Set and costume designer Patricia Talacko
Composer Louis Lebee
Video artist Oleg Mikhailov
Lighting designer Nicole Berry
Playwright Roman Doljanski, Annabelle Leschke
Choreographer Sofia Pintzou
Vocalcoach Johanna Greulich
CAST
Erzähler Rocco Brück
Josef Schwarz Paul Simon
Helen Annemarie Brüntjen
Georg, SS Offizier Eddie Irle
Dr. Martens, Wirt, Urschwarz Boris Koneczny
Krause, Sängerin, Ärztin Ragna Pitoll
Empfangsdame, Lagerinsassin u.a. Rahel Weiss
Kellner, Unteroffizier, Möller Daniel Krimsky
Schaffnerin, Tänzerin, Sängerin u.a. Dominika Hebel
Musiker Louis Lebee
1942 at the port of Lisbon: This is where the ships set off for freedom. Here, thousands waited desperately for one of the rare tickets, trying to get hold of a visa and papers to escape fascism. Two men meet by chance on the quay. One wants to flee to America with his wife, but has neither passports nor tickets. The other has both and wants to give it to the stranger - on the condition that the stranger listens to his story before the ship sets sail at dawn.
Maxim Didenko takes the audience with the characters into the nightclubs and bars of Lisbon, where refugees and stranded people await an unlikely future. To the music of all their countries of origin, a story comes to life that is about love and betrayal, about hopeless hope and an insatiable hunger for life. It is the story of a love in the Second World War, but it is also the story of flight and expulsion that is repeated to this day across all time and place boundaries.