LULU

About the show

The Munich dramatist Frank Wedekind spent over twenty years working on what he called his monster tragedy which, due to harsh censorship, would never be performed in his home city during his lifetime. It was too indecent, too lewd. In Lulu, Wedekind created a snake, a creature «to tempt, to seduce» – and to murder. For her lovers, Lulu is like a screen onto which they can project their desires – whatever a man wants, he will find it in her. And it goes further: Lulu’s seductions drive an entire succession of her lovers in Munich and Paris to their deaths until she ultimately throws herself into death’s arms in the back streets of London. Bastian Kraft’s multimedia adaptations pare down literary classics to their essential core characters, giving them a new narrative voice and point of view, and have taken him to the German-speaking world’s most prestigious stages. With «Lulu» here in Munich he will now continue his intensive exploration of video art on stage, in which – for all its formality – he nevertheless succeeds in placing the actor at the centre of his multi award-winning work.