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"Let Me Play The Lion Also"
- A
really tragic comedy -
The
whole Shakespeare on one evening.
(Original title: "Lasst mich den Löwen auch spielen" - Der
ganze Shakespeare an einem Abend)
written by Reinhard Würffel & Kurt Lutz - free after William
Shakespeare
World premiere in Berliner Globe
Theater on June 20, 1992 (see below*)
Directed by Kurt Lutz
Starring
Erdoğan Atalay, Matthias Westphal, Klaus Ziller
as well as solists of the Polish Philharmoniker
It's a play for three male
actors in 17 various roles,
Erdoğan Atalay was
starring in eight of it: Juliet, Romeo, Sir Richard III., Dromio (Servant of
Romeo), Nick Bottom (Weaver), Robin Starveling (Tailor), Franics Flute
(Patcher) & Tom Snout (Kettle Patcher)
Contents:
This play - 3 acts with interlude - has been put together from all 36 plays by William
Shakespeare, e.g. “Midsummer Nights Dream”, “Othello”, “Romeo & Juliet” and
“As You Like It”
Persons: Juliet
Kätchen, her maid
Sir John, her father
Gertrud, her mother
Sir Richard III.
Romeo, Italian nobleman
Dromio, his servant
* * *
Juliet is visited by
Sir Richard III, who wishes to marry her. Juliet’s mother is in favour of this.
Sir John, the girl’s father, has invited Romeo – of Italian blood - to win Juliet’s heart.
Nobody knows that
Juliet and her maid have switched their clothes to cause confusion.
Sir Richard is
disgusted upon his first meeting with the disguised Juliet whom he takes to be
the maid, as intended.
But when the guest
from Italy arrives, Juliet meets Dromio, Romeo’s servant… and falls in love
with the unsuspecting man who feels the same for her. He has no clue that she
is, in fact, Sir John’s daughter.
Meanwhile Romeo
falls in love with the maid, Kätchen, who is still wearing Juliet’s clothes.
At the next
encounter, Juliet rejects Richard brusquely – he feels insulted and wants to ravish
her, but her father comes in time to rescue her. He sends Richard from his
lands.
Later, her mother
tells her she must obey and marry Richard, but Juliet continues to rebel.
Sir Richard and
Juliet’s mother plot the evil plan to kill Sir John to reach their objective.
But Richard plays false – he also poisons the mother when their plan seems to
have succeeded. But he did not consider Romeo and his servant. After a duel
with Romeo, it is eventually Dromio who kills Richard in another duel.
Juliet is shocked by the deaths of her
parents and faints. Dromio wakes her with a kiss and comforts her. Suddenly,
Sir John appears – not as a ghost; alive. Julia and Dromio can hardly believe
it and are overjoyed. While they talk about what has transpired and the plans
of the father for his daughter, another surprise is revealed, because … Dromio
turns out to be Romeo, the noble man – he, too, had switched places with his
servant.
Now, that
everything has been resolved, the lovers have found each other and everyone
embraces happily; Sir John leaves to prepare the wedding.
Now follows the so-called interlude…
The craftsmen
Bottom, Starveling, Flute, Snout, Quince and Snug appear in their rehearsed play
for the wedding; in the roles of ‘Pyramus’, ‘Thisbe’ the ‘wall’, the
‘moonshine’ and the ‘lion’.
And
it ends with Shakespeare’s epilogue.
THE END
* * *
Here some hyperlinks:
è Information about
the play and in those days Globe Theater on Potsdamer Platz (Berlin) è here
è Furthermore
available: an extensive (German) programme to the world premiere in
Berlin, published by Verlag Grotesk. Included there you can find for example
black and white photographs of the premiere, the whole text of the play as well
as reports about Shakespeare and more è here (categroy
"Lager" / Notice:
offer per mail not per order former)
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Copyright
notice: The
contents of this play is told free here because all rights on this works by
Alpha Verlag Berlin. It is not allowed to use or reproduce the play in
one way or another !!! |
Online in June 2005
Layout & investigations by webmaster Barbara F.
Many thanks to Ute
Lafin for translation !! J