Goethe online streams German theatre

The Goethe-Institut

Sri Lanka in collaboration with the theatre group Inter Act Art and the Deutsches Theater Berlin will organize an online streaming of the stage drama “Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller” directed by Anne Lenkat 5 pm on March 23 at Goethe-Institut, Colombo. Conducted as part of Colombo Theatre Forum, the discussion on ‘Maria Stuart ByFridrich Schiller’ is moderate by playwright M. Safeer.

Mary Stuart, Catholic Queen of Scots, has fled from her people, who accuse her of contract killing her husband. In England, she hopes for political asylum from her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth, but at the same time lays claim to her crown, whose rightful heir she sees herself as. She is captured and interned, liberation attempts by young rescuers fail.

But Mary’s splendor also radiates from the dungeon: she can count on a loyal following and knows France at her side. After several foiled assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth, which are blamed on Mary, she is to be executed. In Elisabeth’s advisory staff, opinions differ, an attempt at reconciliation in the form of a meeting between the two queens fails magnificently.Nevertheless, Elisabeth hesitates to carry out the death sentence. She fears the decision in a duel that no winner will know.

Friedrich Schiller’s Maria Stuart is a game of intrigue in the web of politics, religion, love and power, to which all figures are inescapably subjected. Schiller draws a tableau of powerful people who shy away from responsibility and suffocate in their positions. And he shows them as deeply human characters who, in their actions or non- actions, lonely, isolated and unfree, repeatedly end up with themselves. Sartre: “Man is condemned to freedom. Because once he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

“This stream is presented in 4K and ultra hi definition audio.”