{"id":27905,"date":"2020-06-10T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T09:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeaustria.at\/2020\/06\/10\/milo-rau-everywoman-salzburger-festspiele\/"},"modified":"2020-07-15T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:30:46","slug":"milo-rau-everywoman-salzburger-festspiele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeaustria.at\/en\/2020\/06\/10\/milo-rau-everywoman-salzburger-festspiele\/","title":{"rendered":"Milo Rau \u201eEverywoman\u201c \/ Salzburger Festspiele"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

19. – 28.08.2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Salzburg Festival is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Throughout this century, one theater play has remained the central constant of the festival. Hugo von Hofmannsthal\u2019s Jedermann: The play about the life and death of a rich man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the hundredth anniversary of the festival even death is now emancipating: theater maker, author and sociologist Milo Rau together with Swiss actress Ursina Lardi is developing and staging the production \u201cEverywomen\u201d for this this year\u2019s Salzburg Festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milo Rau is known for beeing one of the most political theater makers in Europe. His works are often located in a transition area between political activism and theater. When Milo Rau is doing theater, he looks exactly where most others like to look away: from the Congo wars to Anders Breivik\u2019s world of thought, the conviction and execution of the Ceausecou couple to the crimes of the child murderer Marc Dutroux. Critique of capitalism and criticism of the prevailing conditions are constant basic themes of his work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The production \u201cEverywoman\u201d picks up on the central motif of Hofmannsthal\u2019s Jedermann: Death that enters everyone\u2019s life. \u201cWith us it is \u201cEverywomen\u201d. We look at it from the perspective of a woman, \u201dsays Rau, who develops and directs the play together with Ursina Lardi, who will also play the main role. Lardi and Rau have worked together on similar projects before. As for instance in the production \u201cMitleid. Die Geschichte des Maschinengewehrs\u201d, which Rau and Lardi developed on joint research trips along the refugee routes in the Congo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The duo originally wanted to develop the Salzburg \u201cEverywomen\u201d production in Brazil, on an occupied plantation. But then Corona turned all over and they started the project from scratch. \u201cWe asked ourselves: What do we actually have to do with death today,\u201d says Rau. \u201cWe joined with a woman who is very sick and doesn\u2019t have much time in this world. Together with her we developed this play. So there are two \u201cEverywomen\u201d. One in videos, we made with her. And one on stage: this is Ursina. The next question we asked ourselves was: what is the role of art in it? Today there is no longer a God for most who can redeem us. \u201c <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hofmannsthal\u2019s Everyone wraps the \u201cdeath of the rich man\u201d in an allegory-filled mystery-play determined by christian morality. \u201cHofmannsthal wrote his play right after the First World War, in the period of the Spanish flu, facing the total fiasco of this great war. I think, the moment he decided to pick up this old and bulky mystery play from the 16th century, he had basically lost everything, \u201dsays Rau. \u201cToday we have a cult of life and a society that could be described as a theater of death avoidance,\u201d says Rau, \u201cand I think these rituals like the yearly Jedermann in Salzburg are actually central symbols for it.\u201d Because the allegorical figures from death or mammon to the devil make it easy for us today to walk away from the death in a Jedermann performance and to happily enjoy the prosecco afterwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, Rau does not want his \u201cEverywoman\u201d production to be understood as a simple mirror for the elites gathered in the Salzburg Festival audience. \u201cI think the big mistake of so-called political theater is that you go into such contexts, then use and criticize them. That is absurd. I never do that. That is of no interest to me, \u201demphasizes Rau. \u201cI see this production bigger and more structural. I was really interested in this existential question. Ursina and I just didn\u2019t want to avoid it: What about this death? \u201cEverywomen\u201d is not a political play. Not an allegorical play either, as with Hofmannsthal. It is an associative survey of these two women about their lives. \u201c <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Milo Rau, the collaboration with the deathly ill woman, who will appear in the play in the form of videos, was particularly formative: \u201cI learned two things. For one thing: I have the feeling – she is an educator – that she can look back on a life that really made sense. That is also a central motive in Hofmannsthal\u2019s play. And the other point is that you also become aware of this existential fact of your own death. Which also means that when assessing what is important and what is not, you may also develop a new form of gentleness. As someone who has worked very politically for 20 years, you suddenly realize that other things also count. In a sense, you discover Jedermann in yourself. A central message that arises from this is that meaning only comes from life in community. I don\u2019t think anyone can live on his own. That\u2019s not how people work. \u201c <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everywoman<\/strong>
19. – 28.08.2020
Salzburger Festspiele
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