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You know the feeling when you long for someone so much that it doesn't even stop when the person is right in front of you and you can touch, hug, kiss, grab them? You know that feeling when you can never get close enough, that the other person is always too far away no matter how near they are?
Long before the term 'toxic' was used to describe relationships, British playwright Sarah Kane wrote a desperate, tender text about these exact conditions. Her dramatic long poem asks whether intimacy is always an impertinence and wants to know how we endure the violence of romantic love. How can we silence the greedy voices in our heads, at least for a brief moment?
Crave was written in the late 1990s. Now, 25 years later, Christopher Rüping is bringing this great, lonely script to the Pfauen.
By: Sarah Kane / German by Marius von Mayenburg
With: Benjamin Lillie / Maja Beckmann / Sasha Melroch / Wiebke Mollenhauer / Steven Sowah
Staging: Christopher Rüping / Stage: Jonathan Mertz / Costume: Lene Schwind / Music: Christoph Hart / String Trio: Jonathan Heck, Coen Strouken, Polina Niederhauser / Video: Emma Lou Herrmann / Live Video: Alice Speller / Light: Gerhard Patzelt / Dramaturgy: Moritz Frischkorn
Premiere at Schauspielhaus Zurich on March 4, 2023