Odyssee nach Homer

In the organizer's words:

Odyssey
after Homer
A production of the Rottstr 5 Theater

With
Tobias Amoriello
Tim-Fabian Hoffmann
Lea Kallmeier
Maximilian Pulst

Directed by
Daniel Kunze

Assistance
Mira Iserloh, Klara Linge

photos
Sabine Michalak

production
Hans Dreher, Oliver Paolo Thomas

Duration: approx. 80 minutes

Premiere: Sunday, April 10

The journey of Odysseus, which has long since become proverbial, tells of the king's long odyssey
of the king who wants to sail home from Troy. He wanders the sea for almost twenty years.
As the flotsam of fate and the victim of divine disagreements, Odysseus is swept from one adventure to the next. Homer tells of the odyssey of life in grand, mythological images. A parable of not arriving and trying as the ultimate goal.
Thus, this hero and his crew pass through the deepest human fantasies, they taste the fruit that makes them forget all their worries, are transformed into animals
transformed into animals, encounter the dead in Hades and cry out in thunderous storms against the arbitrariness of the gods.
And in doing so, they question the senseless and painful quest of man, which is his life.

PRESS RELEASES

Daniel Kunze's highly exciting production of his adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey" is an evergreen, challenging both the quartet of actors and the audience for over eighty minutes.
(Hallo Herne)

There, in the underworld, Odysseus and his companions meet all kinds of legendary figures as well as Sisyphus - whose eternal task is to roll the same stone up a mountain again and again. And he is still doing it when Odysseus sets off on his final journey, as the audience learns. Being a hero becomes the work of Sisyphus. The audience acknowledges the powerful evening with frenetic applause. Quite rightly so.
(WAZ)

Ulysses and his companions are not so much portrayed as courageous heroes, but rather as an over-excited chaotic group who stumble from one adventure to the next, end up in the Cyclops' cave and are transported to the island of the witch Kirke (Lea Kallmeier). The pathetic heroic epic becomes an adventure comedy in the style of a self-deprecating superhero comic. It's entertaining, makes for laughs and has a quality all of its own as a smashing of highly cultural idols. But director Kunze achieves more than that. His performance poses the question: What is a hero?
(WAZ)

This production, which is also disturbing due to the immediate proximity of the audience to the spirited, always physically intense performance of the quartet, is one of the outstanding works.
(Hallo Herne)

"Zeus has shown me the promised land, but gives me no access to it," complains the hero. The sound of the sea booms and earth is thrown in the applicant's face. It seems ungodly, but as we all know, Frontex has also taken on the dirty job of keeping these wanderers away from us. What is probably the most influential Western poetry still sheds light on our present as a distorted image is almost mercilessly exposed to absurdity on this evening.
(BSZ Bochum)

Director Daniel Kunze continues the collaboration between Rottstr5 and the Folkwang directing course with this stage adaptation of the well-known ancient material. Together with young'n'rotten, the youth ensemble of the off-theater, directing students are given the opportunity to stage performances under professional conditions.
The result is more than convincing. The odyssey is deconstructed on stage as an absurd laughing stock: cheeky, silly, existential. Daniel Kunze brings the original text of modernism to the stage as a slapstick act. Today, the Odyssey only has a place as a parody of the present. This makes for laughter and deserved applause. And yet it is more bitter than any tragedy.
(BSZ Bochum)

"Daniel Kunze's highly exciting production of his adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey", which challenges both the quartet of actors and the audience for over eighty minutes, is an evergreen"

Price information:

17€ full payer | 10€ reduced