Dream and Derangement

By Claude Regy

Warning: Approx 1 hr with no interval
Latecomers will not be admitted
Performed in French with Chinese and English surtitles
Recommended for ages 16 and above
From the entrance of the audience until after the performance is finished, the lighting of the venue will be kept at a low level.

Category: Theatre/Dance

Genre: Drama

Company:

Venue:
Hong Kong Cultural Center- Studio Theatre

Date and Time:
9 & 10 March, 8:15pm 10 & 11 March, 4.30pm

Ticket Price:
240-340

Location:
Kowloon

Nearest MTR Station:
Tsim Sha Tsui

Ticketing By: Urbtix

Age Limitation: 16

The madness and horror of war have rarely been so powerfully described as in Georg Trakl’s 1914 poem Dream and Derangement (Traum und Umnachtung). The carnage he witnessed as a young Austrian army medical officer in the bloody defeat of Russian forces at the start of WW1 was apocalyptic. His death by drug overdose followed shortly after, almost certainly suicide. He was 27.

Trakl’s short life was full of contradictions. He experienced incest, was a drug addicted alcoholic obsessed with self-destruction, and yet driven by a strong Christian faith. Frequently compared to Rimbaud for his youthful genius, he wrote a lifetime of image-rich and taboo-breaking verse in the space of just six years.

In 2016, at the age of 93, “national treasure” French theatre and film director Claude Régy chose to stage Trakl’s harrowing poem . He saw in its radical energy, craziness, silence and darkness the essence of his own creativity. Régy was the first in France to mount plays by Harold Pinter, Peter Handke, Nathalie Sarraute and Sarah Kane.