In a monologue based on the life stories of war photographers and his own experiences, director Milo Rau explores the fragility of our certainties: Why is violence so tempting? What remains when war and terror destroy the world as we know it? In “The Seer”, Ursina Lardi plays a war photographer who travels to conflict areas around the world seeking images of dread. She seems always one step ahead of the suffering, and at the same time untouchable. Until she has first-hand experience of what it means to be subjected to violence herself. The celebrated war photographer becomes a jaundiced Cassandra warning of horrors to come.
Milo Rau returns with a powerful performance that explores the tragedy of the contemporary world in an exceptional directorial vision.
Inspired by: Philoctetus by Sophocles Text and Direction by: Milo Rau
Set and costume: Anton Lukas
Sound design: Elia Rediger
Video: Moritz von Dungern
Dramaturgy: Bettina Ehrlich, Carmen Hornbostel
Collaboration Text: Ursina Lardi
Lighting: Stefan Ebelsberger
Translation, language coach Arabic: Susana Abdul Majid
Advice, coordination (Iraq): Sardar Abdullah
Producers: Schaubühne Berlin | Production Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Berlin) Coproduction Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna, La Biennale di Venezia Supported by Goethe-Institute and Fondament World Premiere Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna 2025
Co-producers: Co-production Vienna Festival | Free Republic of Vienna, La Biennale di Venezia Supported by: Goethe-Institute and Fondation World Premiere Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna 2025
Cast: Ursina Lardi, Hassan Azad (Video)
Performance in German and Arabic, with translation into Romanian and English
The performance contains descriptions and/or depictions of physical and sexual violence.
Duration: 1h 25min
Date of premiere: 05.06.2025
Original title: Die Seherin Germany The German Season
Program and Access
22 June,
20:00
Fabrica de Cultură - UniCredit - Sala „Eugenio Barba”
16+
1h 25min
150 / 100 LEI
23 June,
18:00
Fabrica de Cultură - UniCredit - Sala „Eugenio Barba”
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