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Eliza

by Sokola//Spreter based on motifs from "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw

Regie: Jan Philipp Gloger

Wednesday, 30/04/2025

07.30 PM - 09.45 PM

with one break

Performance

07.00 PM Introduction (in German)

Schauspielhaus

Abo B SH

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World premiere

Eliza Doolittle was a simple, working-class flower seller – and she spoke like one. Then came Professor Henry Higgins, who wagered that he could turn her into a woman of high society. Easy as cake. She flourished in her speaking exercises, practised her curtseys and was given lavish clothing. Eliza was being re-educated. Higgins treated her coarsely, looked down on her, never thinking of what would become of her after his experiment. And there she stood, ripped out of her own world and finding herself in a new one that was alien to her. Naturally, she decided to marry Higgins. At least, this is how “My Fair Lady” ends. In George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”, the basis for the famous musical, Eliza leaves him and sets out into the world. Now she has returned and wants revenge – or, perhaps, just a new home. In any case, she finally wants to write her own story.

Ivana Sokola and Jona Spreter continue “Pygmalion” from Eliza’s perspective and use humour to ask the fundamental questions of language, status and power. How does social class shape our lives? What happens to a person who moves from one class to another? And can one truly live entirely independently of society and lead a life on their own terms?

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Press reviews
nachtkritik.de

„Mit Eliza bricht etwas über das Publikum herein, wie eine zweistündige kalte Dusche im Sprachgewitter (...) es ist ein Musical-Klassiker auf Koks, ein Fiebertraum. (...) Das wie Billardkugeln hin und her schießende Ensemble gibt alles. (...) Im Publikum fühlt man sich überfahren, aber auch fasziniert von einer letzten, ausufernden Gloger-Inszenierung mit allen Theatermitteln.“

Andreas Thamm, nachtkritik.de

thespionage.nbg

„Der Abend ist überwältigend und komplex auf die beste Art. Gloger hat daraus ein witziges, straffes 5+1-Fest für die Sinne gemacht, vom “My Fair Lady” zitierenden Grammophon über catchy Musiknummern bis hin zum sich zersetzenden Bühnenbild - 'Eliza' ist Overload vom Feinsten.“

Svenja Plannerer, thespionage.nbg

Süddeutsche Zeitung

„Gloger allerdings hat einen Blick für die Komik im Text. Denn ist das Thema der sozialen Zugehörigkeit auch ein problematisches und elementares, so wird es hier in frisch-freudige Unterhaltung gepackt. (...) Die Eliza spielt in Nürnberg Katharina Kurschat. Es ist toll zu sehen, wie clever sie Gestik und Ausdrucksweisen bis ins Glockenlachen hinein als Dressurergebnis präsentiert. (...) Ihre Selbstermächtigung verläuft auf vielen Ebenen und in mehreren Schritten, das weiß Kurschat glaubhaft zu erzählen.“

Yvonne Poppek, Süddeutsche Zeitung

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