CALIGULA
by Albert Camus
Directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Premiere at the Munich Volkstheater on January 23, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
The golden age is over – the young emperor is in mourning. After the death of his sister and lover Drusilla, he questions the meaning of human existence: “People die and they are not happy”. What follows are cruel years, full of executions and arbitrariness on the part of the power-obsessed ruler.
The shrinking of democratic processes and the worldwide flourishing of autocracies lend the play a new political dimension. At the same time, for Camus, as for Caligula, social artificiality remains the basic motif: the emperor as a total director and yet a seeker of unattainable freedom.
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