William Shakespeare

“For a long time, it seemed that theatre – especially director’s theatre – had lost clarity, when it suddenly re-emerged spontaneously. That clarity, the sibling of platitudes and comprehensibility isn’t that flat, is proven by the way it chose for its return: through Hamlet it creeps back into theatre, through our favourite interpretation playground. At some point, someone who was hands on instead of hesitant regarding the Danish sceptic, melancholiac, laggard… Wolfgang Maria Bauer is one of those rare creatures that are seemingly made for the theatre and are a jack-of-all-trades. As an actor, his presence is overwhelming, reminiscent of a mighty bear that forces himself to be exalted and then falls into a poetic-melancholic sadness because of it. As a playwright and director, he unfurls this mood, but doesn’t let it confuse his scenic impact.” (Frankfurter Rundschau)