"Titus Andronicus" at the German State Theatre
Shakespeares first tragedy


The German State Theatre (TGST) is glade to invite you to the first premiere of 2013: "Titus Andronicus", a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The stage direction was taken over by Brian Michaels.
The premiere will have place on:
Friday, the 11th January 2013,
at 7,30 p.m., in the Hall of the German Theatre
An anonther performance will take place on:
Saturday, the 12th of January 2013,
at 7,30 p.m., in the Hall of the German Theatre

Stage and costume were designed by Ioana Popescu, while Hanns-Dietrich Schmidt and Valerie Seufert are responsable for the dramaturgy. The stage speech coordination was taken over by Claudia Hartmann and the assistant director of the play is Mizgin Bilmen.

Actors of the play: Rareş Hontzu, Boris Gaza, Radu Vulpe, Franz Kattesch, Konstantin Keidel, Alex Halka, Horia Săvescu, Georg Peetz, Enikő Blénessy, Anne-Marie Waldeck, Dana Borteanu, Aljoscha Cobeţ, , Paul Cebzan, Richard Hladik, Harald Weisz and Raul Bastean.

About the play: The roman general, Titus Andronicus, is returning home after the war against the goths. Their queen, Tamora, and her son are his prisoners. After sacrificing in a ritual way Tamoras oldest son, he raises her pleadings. Shortly after this, queen Tamora marries the Kaiser of Rome and gets to power. Together with her lover, Aaron, she is building a perfidious plan, which doesn't include just slander, rape and murder, but also the separation of various limbs.
With probably his first tragedy, William Shakespeare is offering, despite of the bloody foreground, a complex play about rituals, violence, pain and revenge.

Brian Michaels was born 1948 in London and studied philosophy at the University of Sussex from 1966 until 1969. He worked with the Indian community in Wolverhampton in 1970 as part of the community culture project runned by the Council for Race Relations and is co-founder of Gallus Centre in Frankfurt (in 1975). In 1978 he founded Teatro Siciliano, the first immigrant theatre in West Germany and 1981 he founded the Gallus Theater - one of the first major alternative theatre venues in Germany. In 1984 he was invited to develop his first project for the State Theatre in Stuttgart - one of Germany's leading theatres. Parallel to working in Stuttgart, he worked at a number of major European festivals in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
In 1994 he became Professor for Acting and Directing at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, one of the most important centres for artistic training in whole Germany. It followed co-productions with international partners from Israel, USA, Holland and Romania.


The performances will be translated into Romanian.