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Theater Basel
Steinentorstrasse
7, 4051 Basel
An exuberant play with addictive potential. Play based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky, directed by Pınar Karabulut.
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An exuberant game with addictive potential
In Roulettenburg, money, gambling addiction and obsessive love rule. The eternal illusion: "Tomorrow, tomorrow everything will have an end! The rich heiress is supposed to fix it. But while everyone is waiting for the redemptive news of her death, she turns up alive and well and gambles away even the last ruble. 'The Gambler' is a masterpiece, written as if in a frenzy. It was born of a diabolical pact between Dostoevsky and his publisher: either he delivers the novel within a few weeks, or face serfdom. Director Pınar Karabulut is also a master of pushing boundaries. She tests the classics of world literature for their pop-cultural suitability and confronts them with queerness.
Contributors and additional information:
Artistic team
- Production - Pınar Karabulut
- Stage and costumes - Sara Giancane
- Composition - Daniel Murena
- Lighting design - Vassilios Chassapakis
- Dramaturgy - Sarah Lorenz
Cast
- Alexei Ivanovich - Elmira Bahrami
- Mademoiselle Blanche - Nairi Hadodo
- Polina Alexandrovna / Luis - Annika Meier
- La Baboulinka:Antonida Vasilyevna / Albert - Barbara Colceriu
- Marquis des Grieux - Vera Flück
- General - Jan Bluthardt
- Mister Astley - Peter Knaack
- Baron Wurmerhelm / Croupier / Hortense - Antoinette Ullrich
- Croupier / Lisette - Joshua Walton
- Baroness Wurmerhelm / Croupier / Cléopâtre - Marvin Groh
- Dior & Cartier - Kennedy
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
In Roulettenburg, money, gambling addiction and obsessive love rule. The eternal illusion: "Tomorrow, tomorrow everything will have an end! The rich heiress is supposed to fix it. But while everyone is waiting for the redemptive news of her death, she turns up alive and well and gambles away even the last ruble. 'The Gambler' is a masterpiece, written as if in a frenzy. It was born of a diabolical pact between Dostoevsky and his publisher: either he delivers the novel within a few weeks, or face serfdom. Director Pınar Karabulut is also a master of pushing boundaries. She tests the classics of world literature for their pop-cultural suitability and confronts them with queerness.
Contributors and additional information:
Artistic team
- Production - Pınar Karabulut
- Stage and costumes - Sara Giancane
- Composition - Daniel Murena
- Lighting design - Vassilios Chassapakis
- Dramaturgy - Sarah Lorenz
Cast
- Alexei Ivanovich - Elmira Bahrami
- Mademoiselle Blanche - Nairi Hadodo
- Polina Alexandrovna / Luis - Annika Meier
- La Baboulinka:Antonida Vasilyevna / Albert - Barbara Colceriu
- Marquis des Grieux - Vera Flück
- General - Jan Bluthardt
- Mister Astley - Peter Knaack
- Baron Wurmerhelm / Croupier / Hortense - Antoinette Ullrich
- Croupier / Lisette - Joshua Walton
- Baroness Wurmerhelm / Croupier / Cléopâtre - Marvin Groh
- Dior & Cartier - Kennedy
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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