Direction
Christoph Marthaler
Stage design
Anna Viebrock
Stage design collaborator
Thilo Albers
Costume design
Sarah Schittek
Artistic collaborator
Gerhard Alt
Music director
Christoph Homberger
Assistant to music director
Bendix Dethleffsen
Dramaturgy / texts
Stefanie Carp
Lighting design
Phoenix (Andreas Hofer)
Make up
Christian Schilling
With
Marc Bodnar / A Frenchman who has lost his way
Raphael Clamer / A security guard
Bendix Dethleffsen / Pianist
Karin Pfammmater / A woman in search of the past
Olivia Grigolli / A precocious girl
Christoph Homberger / Song co-ordinator
Ueli Jäggi / A worried man on the phone
Jürg Kienberger / A childlike man / keyboard player
Katja Kolm / A nail-care studio owner
Bernhard Landau / A savings bank employee
Barbara Nüsse / A fortune-hunter
Sasha Rau / A bad girl
Lars Rudolph / An executive in the making
Clemens Sienknecht / A reasonable man / keyboard player
Bettina Stucky / A consumption seeker
Music
Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Erik Satie, Alban Berg, a Viennese Song, Popular Music
Texts
Stefanie Carp (the lyrics also feature the five poems by Elfriede Gerstl: ich bin so frei, warum bin ich, anrufung der grossen putze, vögelfrei - eine spruchsammlung, k. wünscht sich eine neue enzyklopädie, from „neue wiener mischung" @ Literaturverlag Droschl Graz-Vienna 2001. A passage from Seneca's On the Brevity of Life from: "On the Happy Life from: On the Happy Life, German translation Stuttgart 1978 (courtesy of Alfred Körner Verlag, Immanuel Kant: The Categorical Imperative.)
Tokyo performance staff
Assistance stage design
Blanka Rádóczy
Assistance costume design
Jovana Bácanović
Make-Up
Katharina Gräser
Technical Crew
Peter Walz (Technical Director), Franz Jackel (also props), Krzystof Lésniewicz, Antony Osborne, Claude Nikiema, Volker Stieblich
Light head technicians
Jan Wagner, Victor Duran, Gerhard Pürcher
Sound head technicians
Ernst Zettl, Volker Werner
Company Manager
Lenneke Willemsen
Production
Martina Forster, Ela Monaco
Tour Production
Cath Brittan, Isabel Öhlinger
Produced by
Wiener Festwochen 2009
Co-produced by
Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Athens Festival, Festival d'Avignon, Miedzynarodowy Festiwal
Teatralny DIALOG-WROCLAW, Theater Chur, Festival/Tokyo
Tokyo Staff
Translation / surtitle operation
Ken Hagiwara-Wallentowitz
Surtitle advisor
Satoru Makuuchi
Technical director
Eiji Torakawa & Karasuya
Stage manager
Kazuhiko Nagahara
Machinery
Murakami Stage
Assistant stage managers
Taisuke Kitamura, Tsubasa Tanaka
Coordination stage set
Eisuke Ozu & Karasuya
Properties
Kayoko Kuriyama
Lighting coordination
Makiko Sasaki (Factor Inc.)
Sound coordination
Akira Aikawa (Soundweeds)
In cooperation with
Endorsed by
Deutsche Botschaft Tokio, Österreichische Botschaft Tokio
Presented by
Festival/Tokyo
