»Die Frau vom Meer - Oder: Finden sich Rudimente einer Ur-Fischart im menschlichen Gemüt?« nach Henrik Ibsen

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after Henrik Ibsen // Directed by Barbara Bürk

Henrik Ibsen carefully endowed his female characters with bourgeois biographies. However, the deeper origin of a Nora, a Hedda or an Ella lies, one could assume, beyond all bourgeoisness in a kind of elemental force or force of nature, an elemental, atavistic desire. Ellida, the "woman from the sea", is also a kind of hybrid creature: half second wife of the early widowed small-town doctor Dr. Wangel, half sea creature who longs for the will-less expanse of the ocean. A mermaid, torn between freedom and attachment. But what if this conflict lay dormant in every human being? Aren't we all a little fish? "A species of fish forms a primal link in the evolutionary series of man," Ibsen noted.

Barbara Bürk, known for the bizarre humor of her singing, dancing and sometimes bitterly grotesque works, sets out this time with the active support of the "Nordic Magus" Ibsen in search of the fish nature in man.