Sakrileg

PREMIERE: 05. 04. 2025 @ GRILLO-THEATER, Schauspiel Essen

For tickets and info: https://www.theater-essen.de/programm/kalender/sakrileg/2661/

SAKRILEG By SAAR MAGAL

Created with and performed by the Ensemble:
Alexey Ekimov, Ines Krug, Hân Nguyễn, Guy Shomroni, Johannes Walter, Koen Kaya Eye, Silvia Weiskopf, Mathias Znidarec

Direction, Concept, and Choreography: Saar Magal

Stage Design: Saar Magal, Tal Shacham

Costumes: Tal Shacham

Dramaturgy: Christina Zintl

Lighting Designer: Tim Symanczik

Soundtrack and Video Design: Saar Magal

Rehearsal Manager: Niv Marinberg

Assistant Director: Lea Oltmanns

Stage Design Assistant: Hannah Ali

Costume Design Assistant: Shirin-Luisa Özdin

Photographs: NILS HECK

Acknowledgments

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Seminar für Tanzwissenschaft at Freie Universität Berlin, for supporting my research process which led to this project here in Essen, as the Valeska Gert Visiting Professor. Above all, I am deeply thankful to the students for their invaluable contributions and inspiration: Carla Felicia Basile, Paula Braasch, Sophia Estel, Meret Constanze Ester, Justina Humpf, Dafna Lazarovitz, Esther Lottes, Marthe Meier, Giulia Medini, Cora Mosel, and Alina Saggerer.

My heartfelt thanks also go to the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship Board of Directors for making this extraordinary opportunity possible: Gabriele Brandstetter, Nele Hertling, Silvia Fehrmann, and Elizabeth Nehring. A special thank you to the department head, Lucia Ruprecht, for her warm invitation.

Finally, I would like to thank Adaya Berkovich and Rea Mochiach for their meaningful contribution.

Inspizienz ANNA KRZYWON

Ton MARKUS HESSE

Video MARK RABE

Dramaturgiehospitanz HANNA WITTICH

Soufflage ÉMILE KATZ

Ausstattungshospitantin NIEVE FREUDENAU

Bühnenmeister ANDREAS LEVEN

Requisite N.N.

Stadt-Vermittlung ALINE BOSSELMANN

Kommunikation PATRICIA SCHRÖER

Technischer Leiter Schauspiel Siegfried Zywitzki

Bühneninspektor Schauspiel Daniel Kleinen

Direktor der Ausstattungswerkstätten Ralf Gehrke

Ausstattungsleitung Aliki Anagnostakis, Lena Natt

Konstrukteur*innen Nico Späth,

Sandra Meitinger Schwartze

Bühnenmeister Thomas Krusenbaum, Andreas Leven,

Johannes Szameitat

Leiter der Beleuchtung Schauspiel Rainer Vermöhlen

Beleuchtungsmeister Darius Engineer, Christian Sierau,

Tim Lukas Symanczik

Ton und Video Marco Adamczyk, Markus Hesse,

Reinhard Münchmeyer,

Mark Rabe

Leiterin des Malersaals und der Plastiker Maike Daum

Leiter der Schreinerei Michael Kramer

Leiter der Schlosserei Sven Marcel Radermacher

Leiter der Dekorationswerkstatt Helmut Tacke

Leiter der Requisite Dirk Lücker

Stellvertretender Leiter Requisite Schauspiel Ralph Kuisle

Kostümdirektor Ulrich Lott

Leiterin der Kostümabteilung Schauspiel Simone Dosiehn

Chefmaskenbildnerin Schauspiel Hanna Bettges

Leiter der Maschinen-, Betriebs- und Haustechnik Timon Sudikatus

Herstellung der Dekorationen und Kostüme

Werkstätten der Theater und Philharmonie Essen GmbH

No other text has had a greater and more lasting impact than Genesis, the first book of Moses; three world religions acknowledge it.
What happens when we (re)read these historical scriptures today in the context of the current global political situation?
What images of God have inscribed themselves in our cultural DNA through the stories of the beginning up to the present day?
And what do our ideas of social cohesion, love, faith, and beauty have to do with the concept of sacrifice?

Through the playful deconstruction of myths and stories—both ancient and contemporary—an evocative, associative performance in five chapters emerges, centered around existential questions.
Saar Magal, working at the intersection of dance, performance, and theater, explores the connection between religion, ideology, violence, and bodies; the breaking of patriarchal structures; communication; and a peaceful future.