Theatre | The 10 Selected Productions
Sommergäste (Summerfolk)
By Maxim Gorky
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Premiere Dusseldorf 10 January 2004
The Summer People © Sonja Rothweiler
Not art, just a normal party, a couple of normal people from the front row meet on the empty stage. People in an empty box, no atmosphere, no decoration, no signs of actuality. Thus the eye is drawn to human details – the complete arsenal of social wretchedness. Jürgen Gosch’s production makes the physical abstract and the psychic concrete. This results in a merciless humour which is only entertaining if you are able to laugh at the ugliness of your own reflection. Very fine acting is hidden beneath this apparent simplicity. An ensemble of actors of flawless unity, giving their all.
Gerhard Preußer
Cast
Directed by – Jürgen Gosch
Stage and Costume Design – Johannes Schütz
Lighting Design – Ulrich Eh
Dramaturgy – Rita Thiele, Sybille Meier
Bassov, Sergei vassilievich, lawyer – Thomas Dannemann
Varvara Michailovna, his wife – Constanze Becker
Kaleria, Bassov’s sister – Birgit Stöger
Vlas, brother of Bassov’s wife – Devid Striesow
Suslov, Pyotr Ivanovich, engineer – Bernd Grawert
Yulia Filippovna, his wife – Eva Spott
Dudakov, Kirill Akimovich, doctor – Martin Schneider
Olga Alexeievna, his wife – Esther Hausmann
Shalimov, Yakov Petrovich, writer – Michael Abendroth
Ryumin, Pavel Sergeievich – Thomas Wittmann
Marja Lvovna, doctor – Anke Schubert
Sonya, her daughter – Julia Grafflage
Dvoetochie (colon), Suslov’s uncle – Horst Mendroch
Samyslon, Nikolai Petrovich, Bassov’s assistant – Stephan Grossmann
Simin, student – Johannes Allmayer
Sasha, maid at the Bassovs’ – Stephan Grossmann / Devid Striesow
Mr Semyonov, amateur actor – Devid Striesow