Werther (Love & Death)

In the organizer's words:

Would you die for love?

Love for a person can be so overwhelming that the lover is prepared to die rather than live with unrequited love. The epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johan Wolfgang Goethe from 1774 tells the tragic story of a young man named Werther and his love for Lotte. Lotte marries someone else, after which Werther's salvation is suicide.

And today? Does love still exert a destructive power over lovers? What language do we have for this feeling? Lies Pauwels(The Hamilton Complex, Baroque) uses the story of Werther to develop an evening about the nature of (contemporary) love, focusing primarily on the perspective of young men. How does love work? What forms can it take? Is it political, is it personal? The director develops sensitive stagings from self-written texts and soundtracks in her own visually powerful theatrical language. An evening full of love, passion, longing, intoxication - 1774 / 2024.