DER EINGEBILDETE KRANKE

….. A play steeped in power struggles, intrigue and imagination. Here someone claims to be something he really isn't – or is he? At any rate, one might get the impression that this is about someone who is quite sure of himself. Ill or not ill, that is the question. Here a man spins a web around himself, gets caught in it and becomes his own prey. Trapped in supposed truths and intrigues, a human being fights for recognition, attention and perhaps for love, too.

And in the end everything stays just as it was meant to be: a struggle, a hoping and the hopeless search for something that makes one feel alive.
No dusty theatre, but a clear, perhaps even provocative and bold production awaits anyone who wants to see in Molière's „Der eingebildete Kranke“ not only theatre of the past, but also new and topical theatre; precisely because there are themes and things that never change.

Markus Plattner

PRESS

BRENNPUNKT (7 June 2006)

UNDER THE SIGN OF THE BEDPAN

…. In his production PLATTNER goes all out for the farcical and caricature-like elements that are also found in this scathing satire on doctors and apothecaries. ….. In a witty running gag, Argan's (Ernst MAYER) bedpan, contents and all, is constantly shoved from one person to the next; another successful idea: the rap of the two lovers (Adela HODZIC / Walter LANSCHÜTZER) and the apothecary (Martin MÜLLER) as a pushy dealer.
Seasoned professional Ernst MAYER, as the pathologically self-obsessed hypochondriac, presents a kind of frantic Louis de Funès squared. …… The maid Toinette, played by Susanne SCHARTNER, keeps the whole contraption spiritedly running and holds it together……