Director

In Gerhart Hauptmann's most frequently performed play, an apartment building serves as a reflection of society: the unemployed theater director Hassenreuter keeps his costume collection in the attic, pursues amorous pleasures, or gives acting lessons. There are sometimes heated arguments about whether art should be beautiful or true. Meanwhile, cleaning lady John dreams of middle-class happiness on the middle floor: when she hears from the maid Pauline Piperkarcka that she wants to kill herself because she has become pregnant unintentionally, Mrs. John offers to buy the child from her. Pauline quickly regrets the deal, however, and names Mrs. John as her child's foster mother. Alarmed, Pauline plants the dying child in the basement of the morphine addict Knobbe.

Director

Max Lindemann

Events

Past events

2 - 11 May, 2025

The Rats · Volkstheater Rostock

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