Theater Basel, Kleine Bühne, Theaterstrasse 7, 4051 Basel
Based on the novel by Fritz Zorn
A tender reckoning
"I am young and rich and educated; and I am unhappy, neurotic and alone." These are the words that begin 'Mars', the cult book of the early 1980s. Having grown up in affluence, Fritz Angst from Zurich felt cheated out of life by the bourgeois coldness of his world and was brought up to die. Shortly before he lost his battle against cancer in 1976, he wrote a blistering tirade under the name Fritz Zorn: his illness was not a personal fate, but a reflection of social decay. The book became a scandalous point of reference for the outraged Swiss youth of the 1980s. Actress and director Anne Haug brings Fritz Zorn's unsparing view of a life between fear and anger to the stage - a record of grief over an existence that was never really lived. A tender, haunting examination of loneliness, lack of love and the longing for liberation.
Performers and additional information:
Artistic team
- Production - Anne Haug
- Stage and costumes - Moïra Gilliéron
- Music - Luzius Schuler
- Lighting design - Stefan Erny
- Dramaturgy - Angela Osthoff, Kris Merken
Cast
- Andrea Bettini
- Vera Flück
- DominicHartmann
"I am young and rich and educated; and I am unhappy, neurotic and alone." These are the words that begin 'Mars', the cult book of the early 1980s. Having grown up in affluence, Fritz Angst from Zurich felt cheated out of life by the bourgeois coldness of his world and was brought up to die. Shortly before he lost his battle against cancer in 1976, he wrote a blistering tirade under the name Fritz Zorn: his illness was not a personal fate, but a reflection of social decay. The book became a scandalous point of reference for the outraged Swiss youth of the 1980s. Actress and director Anne Haug brings Fritz Zorn's unsparing view of a life between fear and anger to the stage - a record of grief over an existence that was never really lived. A tender, haunting examination of loneliness, lack of love and the longing for liberation.
Performers and additional information:
Artistic team
- Production - Anne Haug
- Stage and costumes - Moïra Gilliéron
- Music - Luzius Schuler
- Lighting design - Stefan Erny
- Dramaturgy - Angela Osthoff, Kris Merken
Cast
- Andrea Bettini
- Vera Flück
- DominicHartmann