The Importance of Being Earnest
PREMIERE 18/02/2005
Burgtheater Wien
»Because everyone here exaggerates to the utmost—constantly stepping out of character—the social role-play is exposed as exactly what it is: pretense. At the same time, however, the performers achieve a unique authenticity through their unrestrained playfulness.«
»Because everyone here exaggerates to the utmost—constantly stepping out of character—the social role-play is exposed as exactly what it is: pretense. At the same time, however, the performers achieve a unique authenticity through their unrestrained playfulness.«
»Because everyone here exaggerates to the utmost—constantly stepping out of character—the social role-play is exposed as exactly what it is: pretense. At the same time, however, the performers achieve a unique authenticity through their unrestrained playfulness.«
Falk Richter stages Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest/ Bunbury in the version by Elfriede Jelinek at the Vienna Akademietheater as a shrill hyper-comedy with a star-studded ensemble.
With // Michael Maertens, Roland Koch, Kirsten Dene, Dorothe Hartinger, Libgart Schwarz, Johann Adam Oest, Christiane von Poelnitz