MACHINE MÜLLER
Gogol Center, Moscow, Russia
Premiere: March 4, 2016
Duration 2 hoursAuthor Heiner Müller
Director and Artistic Direction Kirill Serebrennikov
Assistant Set Designer Anya Marchenko
Choreographer Evgeny Kulagin
Video Artist Ilya Shagalov
Composer Alexey Sysoev
Translation Vladimir Kolyazin
Poetry Translation Olga Fedyanina
Sound Designers Valery Vasyukov (aka The НЕТ), Philipp Karetsos
Music Director Andrey Polyakov
Lighting Designer Igor Kapustin
Vocal Coach Arina Zvereva
Assistant Costume Designer Polina Grechko
Technologist-Constructor Olga Pavlyuk
Assistant Directors Nadezhda Veselova, Ekaterina Moseykina
Executive Producer Inna Solodkova
“One could say that transformation is also a fundamental element of theater and drama, and the final transformation is death. The only thing that unites an audience, the one thing in which they are all alike, is the fear of death—it’s universal. This is the unifying factor. In everything else, people have entirely different interests, needs, desires, and ideas. Thus, theater is always rooted in symbolic death.”
Heiner Müller in conversation with Alexander Kluge, 1995
At the core of the performance are the plays Hamletmachine and Quartet by the great German playwright and director Heiner Müller, as well as his letters and diaries.
Performance,
Scenography,
Theatre