Krapp’s Last Tape

Robert Wilson in a play by Samuel Beckett

This event is part of 100 Years Bauhaus. The opening festival.

Where?

Berlin, Akademie der Künste - Standort Hanseatenweg

When?

Thu, 17.01.2019 | 19:00 - 20:00

What?

Theatre / Stage

German debut performance, in English

Robert Wilson’s production of Beckett’s classic Krapp’s Last Tape premiered in 2009 and has been shown at many theaters worldwide – in Western Europe, the Americas, Australia, Russia and China. Maybe most importantly, in 2012, it received its knighting in Ireland, Beckett’s own home country, where the press hailed the show as “stylish and powerful” as well as “freeing Beckett’s work from the preconceptions that so often define it.”

After Happy Days (2008), Krapp's Last Tape was the second Beckett production in Robert Wilson's career.

Krapp’s Last Tape" (...) provides a unique opportunity for Wilson`s performing talent, being a blend of his signature, highly detailed, and rigorous integration of movement, lighting and sound, and within that framework, a structure that leaves a great deal of freedom for the spontaneity of response that makes his live performance so exciting. Wilson has often been compared with Beckett, both being masters of the stark simplicity that is one of the most difficult artistic achievements. Nothing is extraneous, not a word, not a movement. In the brief hour of this work, Beckett and Wilson in a few simple strokes paint a vision of the world that is very particular and at the same time, universal. Sue Jane Stoker


Direction, Set Design and Lighting Concept Robert Wilson
Assistant Director Charles Chemin
Costumes Design and Collaboration to Set Design Yashi
Lighting Design A.J. Weissbard
Sound Design Peter Cerone and Jesse Ash
Associate Director Sue Jane Stoker
Technical Director Reinhard Bichsel
Light Supervisor Aliberto Sagretti\Marcello Lumaca
Sound Engineer Guillaume Dulac
Stage Manager Thaiz Bozano
Make up Manu Halligan
Robert Wilson’s Personal Assistant Fernando de Testa
 
A project by Change Performing Arts
Commissioned by
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Spoleto52 Festival dei 2 Mondi

Premiered on June 28, 2009 at the Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi, Caio Melisso Theater, Spoleto, Italy.

Read also: "The Art of Memory. Robert Wilson plays "Krapp's Last Tape" ." By Rüdiger Schaper.

Studio
Admission fee: EUR 30 (EUR 25 reduced)/EUR 25 (EUR 15 reduced)

Tickets

Address

Akademie der Künste - Standort Hanseatenweg
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin, Germany

Funding formula

100 jahre bauhaus. Das Eröffnungsfestival is an initiative of the Bauhaus Berlin Dessau Weimar Cooperation and is supported by the Federal Cultural Foundation. The festival is staged in cooperation with the Academy of the Arts, Berlin.

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