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Aida Karic reworked Friedrich Schiller’s material and Laura Ruohonen’s text

Aida Karic is a young Austrian artist with her own individual directorial style. She takes established classics as the point of departure for her own very contemporary, highly visual and musical form of theater. MARIA STUART’s central theme was women, power and religion. Laura Ruohonen’s text dealt with Scottish Queen Mary Stuart and her antagonist, Elizabeth I. The historical setting was a deeply religious society on the verge of civil war.
This production brought forth images of modern-day prisons and detention camps, graphically alluding to Saddam Hussein’s capture and the Abu Ghraib Prison. Whereas the two queens resembled one another in their roles as lonely women struggling to retain power in a predominantly male society, each nevertheless made the other into her deadliest rival. Aida Karic thus posed highly relevant questions about terrorism—how to define it, and how society and the political system ought to deal with it. And who should decide who’s a terrorist, how political enemies should be purged, and how to create a legal basis for doing so.
A live band under the direction of composer Horst Michael Schaffer provided a stimulating enhancement to the atmosphere.


WHAT // Theater
WHEN // December 8 - 13, 2009
WHERE // Hafenhalle09

DIRECTOR & ADAPTATION // Aida Karic
FINAL // Aida Karic & Hubertus Martin Mayr
// Laura Ruohonen
TRANSLATION OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT VERSION // Elina Kritzokat
MUSIC // Horst-Michael Schaffer
COSTUMES // Aleksandra Kica
STAGE SET // Collette Pollard
LIGHTING // Hari Michlits
MANAGER // Nora Wolloch
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS // Jetske Nolte and Maik Rözer
COSTUME ASSISTANT // Matteo Haitzmann
TRAINING // Klaus Jürgens and Ester Natzijl
MAKE-UP // Doris Scheuringer
WARDROBE // Gabriela Aspalter

CAST // Mirjam Stolwijk, Aafke Buringh, Herman Bolten, Thomas de Bres, Daan Colijn, Stijn Westenend, Margreet Boersbroek, Ian Bok
MUSICIANS // Clemens Wenger, Christoph Pepe Auer, Flip Philipp
THANKS to // Thoe Boermans, Rezy Schumacher, Helge Hinteregger and Marc van Bree

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