KLEIN - EYOLF

Because he fell off a table as a baby, little Eyolf (Marco Stocker) goes about with a crippled leg. Since the accident his parents, Rita and Alfred Allmers (Amarilla Ferenczy and Michael Walde- Berger), have drifted apart. Alfred has withdrawn into his scholarly work. Rita feels rejected by him, all the more so when Alfred suddenly decides to give up his work, but to devote his energy and time solely to their son, now nine years old. Added to this is Alfred's sister Asta (Nevena Lukic), his true love. One day a woman appears, the "Rat Wife" (Susanne Schartner), and offers the Allmers her services: she wants to lure the rats of the house into the water. Fascinated by the mysterious woman, Little Eyolf follows her to the water and drowns. With the boy's death the past returns too; mutual reproaches, feelings of jealousy and guilt break back into the lives of the Allmers. Each falls prey to rampant egoism. Rita, Alfred, Asta and also Engineer Borgheim (Lucas Zolgar), who in turn is in love with Asta – a love that remains unrequited to the end.

It was written in 1894 and premiered in London. In 1982 it was filmed with Anthony Hopkins and Diana Rigg in the leading roles.

HENRIK IBSEN was born in 1828 in Skien (Norway). Trained as a pharmacist, began studying medicine. In 1851 employed as resident playwright and theatre manager in Bergen. Ibsen is regarded as a co-founder of modern acting and as a fighter against bourgeois morality. In Scandinavia and Germany he became a pioneer of Naturalism. Major works include: "Peer Gynt" (1867), "A Doll's House" (1879), "The Wild Duck" (1884), "Hedda Gabler" (1890).

PRESS

KRONE TIROL(25 March 2017)

A true rarity, Henrik Ibsen's play "Klein-Eyolf", has now premiered at Theater ANTLANTIS in Hall. Directed by Klaus Rohrmoser, the six actors gave a bravura performance. The play deals with rampant egoism – today more neutrally called individualism – and the emotional and social isolation that results from it.

The play is not light fare, but the ensemble grips the audience from the start and takes them on a dark journey into the abysses of the human soul. Great theatre on a small scale.

BEZIRKSBLATT INNSBRUCK - HALL (28 March 2017)

HOPE AND FAILURE

A moving performance of "Klein-Eyolf" at Theater Atlantis in Hall's TPZ

.... in three scenes the stages of failure unfold, which, as punishment for the parents' sinful failings, end in resignation and lead to a flight back into old attachments.

Amarilla Ferenczyas Rita and Michael Walde-Bergeras Alfred act as equals. She as the paralysing wife who tolerates no change, he as an imaginative man and passionate father. Nevena Lukicportrays Asta convincingly, Lucas Zolgaris the persistently courting Engineer Borgheim, Marco Stocker surprises with authenticity and coolness as the disabled Little Eyolf. Susanne Schartnerachieves a remarkably powerful portrayal of the ragged seductress, the Rat Wife.

A multi-layered play which, through its many nuances combined with clear naturalism in the tradition of the then-modern Nordic theatre, aims to offer social criticism.

A remarkably high-quality production that deserves a full house.(Peter Teyml)