Adapted for the theatre, inspired by the novella of the same title by Vladislav Vancura (in the translation of Gustav Just)
Bauersima’s Launischer Sommer, a free adaptation of the 1926 novella, is a parable of the ill-advised capitalist who deems stagnation as being moral while at the same time practising a brainless pragmatism he can’t even justify to himself, thus tending to feel guilty instead of self-confident. Eventually, he tries to assure himself through mystical hanky-panky that ethical behaviour and reasonable thinking are not the same and impossible anyway. The play is set in a swimming pool where reality, bliss, love and sexuality are only abstract concepts. The water everyone is bathing in is the contemporary confusion, up until the day when a ropedancer and a glass harpist decide to test their endurance, their mind and their independence in this inhospitable place.
“As if it was a play written by Jean Renoir... delicately atmospheric, with its own poetic humour… serious ease and relaxed concentration…” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
Igor Bauersima
Launischer Sommer
Für die Bühne bearbeitet nach der gleichnamigen Novelle von Vladislav Vancura in der Übersetzung von Gustav Just
2 D, 4 H
UA: 13.10.2001 · Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus · Directed by: Igor Bauersima