based on the novel by Virginia Woolf
Team
with Cristian Lehmann Carrasco, Florian Kroop and Anne Tismer
Director: Marie Schleef
Stage design and costumes: Jule Saworski
Lighting: Leander Hagen
Music: Marc Oller
Dramaturgy: Laura Andreß
Director’s assistant, superman, surtitles: Ruben Müller
© Jo Jankowski
Six-year old James Ramsey desperately wants to go to the lighthouse. During their summer vacation on the Scottish coast, he repeatedly begs his parents to take him. And so the loop begins: never giving up, never giving in, constant defiance. The boy’s perennial questioning lays bare his family’s long repressed patterns of thought and behavior, baring any possibility of escape from their own illusions. Their planned trip to the lighthouse thus becomes the alias of fixed roles in society, of needs never fully spoken—of expectation itself. The loop at once defines and destroys the family.