- Approx. 2 hours 5 minutes without a break
- Basel premiere of the German-language premiere
- Interesting for people aged 14+
- With Polish surtitles
- This performance contains scenes with stroboscopic effects, which can be disturbing for people who are sensitive to light.
The norm is a fantasy
A terrible secret surrounds the Silesian climatic health resort of Görbersdorf. Every year, a young man dies in the nearby forest. On the eve of the First World War, a group of men meet here for a cure. While the patients, immersed in intellectual conversations, enjoy the mountain air, it is said that the Empusen - female spirits of revenge - are already looking for their next victim. Against this eerie backdrop, young Mieczysław Wojnicz is searching for his identity and sense of belonging: his native Poland has been wiped off the map and he hides his body behind a suit and tie. No one is allowed to know who he is.
Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's novel is a wicked and entertaining response to Thomas Mann's 100-year-old 'Magic Mountain' and tells of discarded men who want to appropriate and subjugate everything that is different. A five-member female ensemble takes on her story and plays these lost men on a cure with humor, passion and profundity. Under the direction of Antú Romero Nunes, the result is an evening about men who destroy themselves, played by women who show us a possible way out.
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- Wilhelm Opitz, Dr. Semperweiss –
- Mieczysław Wojnicz –
- Thilo von Hahn –
- Longinus Lukas –
- August August –
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Statisterie Theater Basel
Co-production
A co-production with the Lausitz Festival and Schauspiel Köln, in collaboration with Staatstheater Cottbus
Digital book table
Together with the dramaturgy department, the Basel Kulturhaus Bider & Tanner has been curating the book table for our plays for many years. Now this selection of books, CDs, DVDs, catalogues and sheet music is available at any time in the online shop. It's worth browsing regularly.
Mediathek
With ‹Empusion›, Antú Romero Nunes shows how to play with gender clichés and good old sexism in such a funny, wicked and virtuoso way that gender debates and top entertainment say goodnight to each other.
The evening is clever enough to encourage the audience to think, but not to take it away from them.
Really terrific
A relaxed, fun evening to bid a long farewell to the patriarchy.
It is the evening of the great actresses