Kammerspiele #1 Eifersucht | Die Nacht der Lesben

Copenhagen, on a fateful evening in 1889. The famous playwright August Strindberg attends a rehearsal of his play “The Stronger” in which his ex-wife and her girlfriend are performing. The evening turns into a psychological thriller in which Strindberg veers between rage and fragility battling his inner demons. A lost man, in search of understanding, but only alienating those around him with casual misogyny and paranoid delusions. The works of the Swedish artist and director Markus Öhrn are distinguished by his own particular aesthetic: the actors wear papier mâché masks, their voices are distorted, their movements slowed down, the settings deliberately pared back. Music and sombre sound designs accompany the characters. Within this unique and quirky stage atmosphere, Öhrn has spent years exposing toxic gender roles and structures of oppression and telling stories of how everyday situations suddenly tip over into endless loops of escalation. Markus Öhrn’s “Kammerspiele” (chamber theatre) series is produced exclusively for Schauspiel Köln. DIE NACHT DER LESBEN (“Night of the Lesbians”) is the first of six episodes across five seasons until 2030 (I. Jealousy / II. Love / III. Family / IV. Dementia / V. Sickness / VI. Death). Öhrn won the Nestroy Prize Special Award in 2019 for “3 Episodes of Life” and was nominated in the “Best Director” category in 2023 for “Scenes from a Marriage”.