Cassels and Sons is delighted to be hosting this gritty contemporary German theatre produced by the Free Theatre Christchurch - right here at the Tannery in Woolston.
In Hereafter, author and filmmaker Werner Fritsch, described by Der Spiegel as "Germany’s boldest poet", dares to go deep down into the soulscape of a man who all his life was under the spell of the underworld.
Wolf "Sexmachine" Bold, who is a suspect for the murder of his wife Cora, the mother of his son Felix, is beyond reality and hallucination, perhaps even beyond his own body. Before the police can arrest him he is threatened by somebody hiding behind a carnival mask of Hitler and holding a revolver to his head. But who is the man behind the mask? Director Peter Falkenberg has translated and adapted this radical monologue in which a man reflects in seconds of horror on what remains in his memory and what dominates our pictures of sex and violence.
Video, experimental voice and double bass counteract and provide an emotional subtext to the spoken word. This project is a continuation of the collaboration between Fritsch and Free Theatre that in 2008 led to Faust Chroma, nominated for Most Original Production at the 2009 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards and described by Radio New Zealand's Lynn Freeman as "mindblowing", "gutsy" and "quite unlike anything I've seen before".
For more information and booking details, go to the Christchurch Free Theatre's website.
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