PENTHESILEA

About the show

Finally, the two grow closer. A hesitant touch, tentative tenderness. An attempt at intimacy. And then a blow. Another. A crack. A punch to the jaw, a kiss, a knee to the stomach. In Penthesilea and Achilles' story, things get thoroughly mixed up: struggle and lust, love and war. Cihan Inan's production of Kleist's Penthesilea at the Theater Bern tirelessly blurs these boundaries in a disturbing way.