Holderlin

A sequence from Peter Weiss’ tragedy Hölderlin adapted by Sebas Alarcon. The play stages an ensemble performance about the early life of Friedrich Hölderlin, a 19c German poet who wrote his best work in a thirty year period of wholly isolated madness. The play doesn’t take that madness as romantic, rather as a result of political, sexual, and creative defeats that made him worse: political, because Hölderlin was a would-be revolutionary in a time of reaction; and sexual, because he suffers from our contemporary maladaptive sexualities, featuring porn-bred kids, moral panics, imperial cucks, and love most sweet when impossible to realize. We take Hölderlin’s madness as an experiment in making political --  didactic theater, even --  that is fun & rigorous.

In order of appearance, performers include Tenaya Nasser-Frederick, Madeline Friedman, Isa Spector, Candice Saint Williams, Anya Bernstein, Aaron Carico, Bob Murphy, Blake Robbins, Rosa Martinez, Clara Kim, Angelina Hoffman, Chloe Claudel,  Alina Jacobs, and Guillermo Resto (Didi). Musicians include Mallory Baker, Donna Allen, and Frances Chang. 

Written and directed by Sebas Alarcon, adapted from the original play by Peter Weiss

Produced by Astro Rys 

Stage Managed and co-produced by Noa Ryan 

Set Design and Flyer by Lucia Zezza

Dramaturgy by Peli Grietzer

Costume Design by Willa Schwabsky

The show runs about 52 minutes long.

Doors at 7:30 Show at 8

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