Endspiel (Fin de Partie)

In the organizer's words:

Play

by Samuel Beckett | in the translation by Elmar Tophoven
In German language

How do you actually become a director? For example, by getting to know the business in a very practical way as an assistant director! But in any case, by simply getting started at some point. The Nationaltheater Mannheim sees itself as a training company and enables assistants to direct their own productions under professional conditions. As part of the new generation of theater makers, they will serve you, our audience, the new present freshly brewed. Bon appétit! Jonas Mangler will kick things off with the tragicomic classic "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett, the master of absurd theater. The Nobel Prize winner wrote his existential and comedic plays in the face of a shattered present and an uncertain future. "Endgame", first performed in 1957, shows a world after the catastrophe. What remains are stagnation and a few lost clowns who live out their tragic end in mutual dependence. Jonas Mangler stages this "Endgame" with great interest in Beckett's dark humor for the opening of the 2025.26 season in the Studio. This content has been machine translated.