The Club Inferno was established by Beatrice Godeux ten years ago as a luxury class casino in Berlin’s borough Wedding in the style of a glamorous Las Vegas venue. After his adored mother Beatrice died, her son Herbert has turned it into a place where guests and staff regularly gather to play games revolving around the thin line between life and death. Proceeding from Dante’s topology of hell, they are confronted with their own lifes, and their desires and anxieties, in a world in which bad deeds can no longer be washed away by a purifying bath, because there is no divine (or natural) power to forgive our sins. Today the club has mutated into a sick parallel universe, where most of its “inhabitants” are stuck and rarely ever take a step outdoors. Rather, they are trapped in Dante’s circles of hell, living in limbo and sharing a collective psychosis with no connection to real life. Similar to Dante’s imaginary guide Vergil, Herbert Godeux invites us on a journey beyond the grave, urging us to abandon all hope and cross the river of Acheron.
Club Inferno is the first full-length production on the theatre stage by the performance collective SIGNA in Berlin. The event takes place at Volksbühne, in a venue located next to Volksbühne (Pavilion) and at Club Inferno.
Cast: Alexander Senner, Ana Valeria Gonzalez, Andreas Schneiders, Anne Hartung, Arthur Köstler, Dominik Klingberg, Emil Groth Larsen, Helga Sieler, Irma Wagner, Jenny Steenken, Johannes Köhler, Judith Fraune, Mareike Wenzel, Markus Klauk, Michael Behrendt, Mona el Gammal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Petra Gantner, Sebastian Sommerfeld, Signa Köstler, Silvia Petrova, Simon Steinhorst, Siri Nase, Steven Reinert, Thomas Bo Nilsson
and: Alexander Iwanov, Alexandra Koknat, Alexandra Zoe, Andrea Pani Laura, Annika Stadler, Bikash Chatterjee, Borghildur Indriðadóttir, Carolin Seidl, Eli Ingvarsson, Eva Costa, Georg Bütow, Gonny Gaakeer, Judith Seither, Kerstin Pollig, Marco Wiersch, Martin Heise, Rahel Schaber, Raphael Souza Sà, Özlem Cosen, Stefanie Mühlhan
Showing March 2013 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (admission over 16s only).
Director: SIGNA
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Eine Produktion der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Koproduktion mit SIGNA, gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Mit Unterstützung der Königlich Dänischen Botschaft in Deutschland
sowie der GESOBAU AG.
Dank an: Marburger Tapetenfabrik, The Grand Western Hotel, Hotel Pace, Pullmann Schweizerhof, Glasschneiderei Wüstenberg OHG, Sisyphos Berlin, Alpina Farben, Tannen-Paradies GmbH, idee. Creativmarkt, Nokia, toom Baumarkt, Danish Arts Council für die Basisförderung der Teaterforeningen SIGNA in Dänemark, Wandelt - Berlin Werbeproduktion
Weitere Unterstützer: Christian Bo, Lars Behrends, Henry Krohmer, Mario Fechner, Johannes Austrup, Tom Förderer, Ewelina Benberek
