About the Ensemble
A solar eclipse. A funeral oration. A warning. A society torn apart by an onslaught of mobs. It has already happened. It is happening now.
László Krasznahorkai’s apocalyptic novel becomes, in the hands of Ulla Kassius, a stage installation with a peculiar language in a unique universe.
Along a track on the ceiling, a lamp moves, advancing like time, beyond our will and desires. Actors Danilo Bejarano, Astrid Assefa, Marcus Vögeli, and Eva Rexed share their perspective on the unfolding disaster.
The music teacher who has realized that the well-tuned harmonies he has taught all his life are an unhealthy exception to the chaos of the world. The woman who, after a humiliating life, embraces subversive catastrophe and turns it into her personal triumph. The mother who embeds her fear in rows of jam jars and lace curtains, and her son who has his place both on the city streets and among the stars.
The play begins in the Picture Room and continues in the lobby with live music, drinks, and a twelve-meter-long wall of postcards.
László Krasznahorkai is one of Hungary’s most prominent writers. The Melancholy of Resistance was published in 1989 and received the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. Several of her novels have been translated into Swedish by Daniel Gustafsson, and both were jointly awarded the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern International Literature Prize in 2024.
Hungarian-born Ulla Kassius is responsible for the adaptation, direction, and set design, along with Moa Möller and Åsa Frankenberg.
