The Judge's House (Dimitré Dinev)
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| Title: | The judge's house |
| Genus: | drama |
| Author: | Dimitré Dinev |
| Premiere: | 2007 |
| Place of premiere: | Akademietheater , Vienna |
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The Judge's House is a drama by Dimitré Dinev that was commissioned by the Vienna Burgtheater . In 2007 it was premiered at the Vienna Akademietheater, directed by Niklaus Helbling , with Michael König (as judge), Martin Reinke (as master), Barbara Petritsch (as hostess), Daniel Jesch (as Iko), Nicola Kirsch (as Xeni), Alexandra Henkel (as Ada), Mareike Sedl (as Phädi), Dietmar König (Thes) and Dorothee Hartinger (as Wera).
Sources and suggestions
The template is the myth about the Minotaur , which has been relocated to the present day, according to legend, a son or stepson of King Minos or his wife Pasiphae , who lives in a labyrinth that the master builder Daidalos had to build and who was led by the Greek hero Theseus with the help of Ariadne , a daughter of Minos, is killed. He can then flee with Ariadne, but then leaves her on an island. He later marries her sister Phaidra , who falls in love with his son from his first marriage, which leads to a family tragedy. Linked to these myths circle is the legend of the flight of Daedalus and his son Icarus . The title of the drama refers to the fact that King Minos reigns as judge of the dead in the underworld after his death. The individual parts of the myth were very often adapted in literature, music, visual and performing arts.
Table of contents
The master, who is considered the greatest artist of his time, worked for the judge many years ago. Now he is returning (as a "guest worker") with his son Iko to the judge's property, where he is surrounded by his wives: his landlady and wife (with whom the master had a love affair many years ago), their daughters Ada, Phädi and Xeni (who never saw her brother) and her teacher Wera, who has been his lover for years, are alive. The judge gives the master the order to build a house without an exit for his son, according to his own claim a monster, who has to live in his room shielded from the world. The walls of the new house, he claims, are supposed to offer the son security and at the same time simulate him freedom. While the house is being built, Iko and Xeni get closer, but their sister Phädi also approaches. Under cover of night, three parallel love acts with Shakespearean confusions and mix-ups take place on the construction site: between Wera and the judge, Iko and Phädi and the landlady and the master who want to catch up on what is no longer possible. The master now suspects that the judge's son might be his own son, the result of the former love affair with the landlady. When he visits this, he finds an educated young man, tied up and masked. Meanwhile, two intruders, Thes and Pero, break into the house. Surprisingly they get help from Ada, the Thes, who poses as her fiancé as the enfant terrible of society. When Thes intrudes into the newly built house to save his accomplice Pero from the "monster" and thereby triggers his death, this has the consequence that the entrenched "family lies" are exposed, which is sometimes very painful , but gives some characters the opportunity to start over.
To the plot
The Judge's House tells a game of confusion about art and love, closeness and foreignness.
Trivia
At the premiere at the Akademietheater in Vienna, the roles of 'Theseus' (Thes) and the 'Minotaur' were played by the same actor.
expenditure
- Dimitré Dinev: The Judge's House . Edited by Sebastian Huber, Burgtheater Verlag , 2007, vol. 155
Secondary literature / reviews
- Die Presse , April 16, 2007 (review by Norbert Mayer), digitized version , accessed on March 5, 2017
- Aurora . Magazine for Culture, Science and Society, July 1, 2007 (review by Kristina Werndl), digitized , accessed on March 5, 2017
Web links
- http://intimacy-art-critic.blogspot.co.at/2007/05/theater-niklaus-helblings-und-dimitr.html , accessed on March 5, 2017
- Text excerpt , accessed on March 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dtver.de/de/theater/index/product/product_id/9783 , accessed on March 5, 2017
- ↑ to http://www.sesslerverlag.at/fileadmin/user_upload/flyer_pdfs/Haus_des_Richters_01.pdf , accessed on March 5, 2017
- ↑ http://www.sesslerverlag.at/fileadmin/user_upload/flyer_pdfs/Haus_des_Richters_01.pdf , accessed on March 5, 2017
- ↑ http://intimacy-art-critic.blogspot.co.at/2007/05/theater-niklaus-helblings-und-dimitr.html , accessed on March 5, 2017