Max Black

Max Black
Theatre Vidy-Lausanne

Auckland Festival, AK 07

European contemporary visual feast.

Devised by acclaimed German director and composer, Heiner Goebbels and starring celebrated European actor Andre Wilms as Max Black, this extraordinary visual theatre will captivate audiences at Auckland Festival, AK07.

Mostly recently seen in Wellington in Eraritjaritjaka, in 2006, Andre Wilms returns as the old man, Max Black who talks to himself about problems of logic, while keeping himself busy in an extraordinary workroom of strange, beautiful and dangerous devices. He converts a man's old bicycle into a bright fire wheel. He hunts mini rockets sputtering around the stage, small running fires hurtle past the stage and the office. Over his head, a stuffed bird is swinging in an illuminated aquarium.

This is outstanding contemporary experimental theatre which removes the boundaries between text, music, lighting and effects.

Reviews of other Goebbels works

‘There is something magical in the way Goebbels juxtaposes artificiality and reality in his meticulous plotting of the staging, lighting, music, text and video'.
The Independent

‘Goebbels's music theatre is a world of literary allusion, knowing intellectualism and avant-garde glamour.'
The Guardian

Venue: Maidment Theatre, corner Alfred and Princes Streets, Auckland City
Dates: Wed 21 Mar - Fri 23 March
Tickets: $40 - $65
Times: 7:30pm

Event listed by Amy Saunders

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