Performances

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE PLAY

Franz Moor, the youngest son of Maximilian Moor, is a ruthless nobleman who wants to deprive his older brother Karl of his birth-right by slandering him to their father, backing his false accusations up with fabricated evidence. The charismatic Karl, whose free nature and rebellious temperament has made him the old Count’s favourite, is informed by his brother that he is to be disinherited. Desperate, he assembles a group of robbers and decides to live as an outlaw in the forest. Until, that is, he learns of his brother’s betrayal and decides to take revenge.
 

“The Robbers” was first performed in January 1782 at the National Theatre in Mannheim and proved an unprecedented success. The premiere was followed by republications, imitations and translations, while important writers and theorists would be inspired by the work or engage with it over the decades. As a representative text of the Sturm und Drang movement, “The Robbers” turns revolutionary ideas against power and authoritarianism into art.

Friedrich Schiller draws on mature classicism, incorporating the Romantic movement into a work that proclaims freedom in the face of tyranny and moves dialectically between individualism and society, realism and metaphysics, morality and arrogance, idealism and nihilism, genius and crime, order and revolution, personal freedom and the rule of law. A landmark play in world theatre, it challenges us to confront its concerns anew in every new era in which it is performed.

 

CREDITS
Translation: Giorgos Depastas, Direction: Akyllas Karazisis, Sets: Maria Panourgia, Costumes: Ioanna Tsami, Music Composition: Lola Totsiou, Movement: Ilektra Kartanou, Lighting: Marietta Pavlaki, Assistant to the director: Mara Tsikara, Assistant to the set and costume designer: Sonia Kaitatzi, Assistant to the set designer: Sofia Theodoraki, Production coordinator: Marily Ventouri

Cast: Chara Giota, Kostis Kapellidis, Fabricio Muco, Giannis Syrios, (Robbers [Schweizer, Roller, Schufterle, Grimm]), Christos Ntaraktsis (Moritz), Foteini Timotheou (Spiegelberg), Efi Stamouli (Maximilian von Moor), Giannis Tsemperlidis (Franz von Moor), Giorgos Kolovos (Karl von Moor), Revekka Tsiligkaridou (Amalia von Edelreich), Mara Tsikara (Herrmann), Ilektra Kartanou (Narrator / Wanderer), Loxandra Loukas (The Child [Margarete])
Musicians on stage: Aliki Marda (cello), Katerina Tantanozi (trumpet)