Philipp Hochmair’s 'Jedermann' is a rock star. Unrestrained, driven, excessive. In a tour de force of acting, he embodies all the characters and transforms Hofmannsthal’s masterpiece of the century into a polyphonic monologue. Two microphones, countless perspectives: one for 'Jedermann', the other for all those who seduce him, beset him and ultimately abandon him. Accompanied by electric guitar riffs and electronic soundscapes. The result: an apocalyptic spoken-word concert straddling theatre, rock and an existential borderline experience. Radical, electrifying, uncompromising.
Hochmair catapults this over 100-year-old material right into the heart of our present day. His Jedermann is a man driven by power, money and intoxication, a man who possesses everything and yet, in the end, stands before nothingness. What remains when everything passes away? A timeless question that takes to the stage in this production with harrowing relevance.
(Semmel Concerts Entertainment)