About two years ago, theatre-goers at the Arriaga marvelled at Incendios (Incendies), a play by Lebanese-Canadian writer Wajdi Mouawad. Now, Mouawad’s Vögel is coming from Germany, in a production in Germany, Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles in Spanish and Basque. Vögel is both a thriller and a modern fairy tale. With the force of an ancient tragedy, Mouawad tells a story of violence, individual destinies and family conflicts against the backdrop of the Middle East conflict.
In the reading room of a university library in New York, Eitan, a young biogeneticist from Berlin, falls in love with Wahida. When he introduces his new girlfriend to his parents and his grandfather, a survivor of the Shoah, it causes a scandal. Wahida is Arab and unacceptable to Eitan’s father. In search of his family’s roots, Eitan travels to Israel with Wahida. Here, Wahida becomes aware of her long-denied Arab identity. And Eitan learns from his grandmother a well-kept family secret.
Show in German, Hebrew and Arabic, with subtitles in Spanish and Basque
The team
Author: Wajdi Mouawad
Director: Burkhard C. Kosminski
Performers: Amina Merai, Martin Bruchmann, Itay Tiran, Silke Bodenbender, and others
Set design: Florian Etti
Costume design: Ute Lindenberg
Music: Hans Platzgumer
Lighting design: Felix Dreyer
Dramaturgy: Ingoh Brux
Show in German, Hebrew and Arabic, with subtitles in Spanish and Basque
Passes
7:30 pm
Prices
from €9,50 to €25 /discounts
Friends of the Arriaga: 25% to 35% offGroups, youths, 65+ seniors, unemployed, large families, persons with at least 33% degree of disability: 25% off
Theatre professionals: 25% off
Last-minute discount (for all categories mentioned above, save for Friends of the Arriaga): 50% off
Last-minute discount for Young Friends of the Arriaga: 70% off
Disabled persons in a wheelchair: 50% off (proscenium box with one companion)
Duration
3 hours 30 min. /interval