TOWER
Ivo Svetina
Coproduction of Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, LGL and Umetniško društvo KONJ
Direction and art design: Silvan Omerzu
Premiere: 6th October 2011, Lower stage SMG
German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) sang in the »poor times « and asked himself, »why poets«. His time was also the time of the downfall of the French revolution and the beginning of human right struggles. Despite his total commitment to poetry, Hölderlin was a man of body and heart. His love to Susette Gontard, a banker’s wife, gave birth to verses dedicated to Dotima, and the death of his chosen one gave birth to insanity, which led to a year in a mental asylum and forty years in Tübingen, with Ernst Zimmer, a carpenter, in a house with a tower near Neckar River. The Tower, adapted from Ivo Svetina’s drama poem, will be directed by Silvan Omerzu. Using actors, puppets, masks and automatons, he will attempt to approach the special state of poets, which even Plato called poetic madness (mania), and without which it is impossible to write poetry. This state has been seen in many “damned poets”, who spent their life writing and living on the thin line between sanity and insanity, between reality and Utopia …
Appropriate age: for adults
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