Maria Magdalene

Kriegenburg 's ruthless stage production presents the apocalypse in a living room. A primary director´s interpretation, however, is not a tragic culmination of a story with four dead corpses. Starting with the first moments until the unstoppable final catastrophe the performance is marked by a stiff atmosphere of the enclosed family microcosm. Cold horror bursts from seemingly unimportant trivialities of petite bourgeoisie's home prison ruled by fear, tremor and helplessness. A spectator can perceive all this mainly through impressive images. Physical expression, hectic actor's gesture, text many times lost in a tight almost unidentifiable murmur of words create in Kriegenburg's directing fascinating theatrical expression bringing back the meaning and contemporaneity to Hebbel’s text.