Synopsis
With Luk Perceval, Lea Goebel, Karin Yeşilada, moderated by Sophie Diesselhorst.From mid-October to mid-November 2021, director Luk Perceval rehearsed his production of Ivan Goncharov's novel "Oblomov" at Schauspiel Köln - in a new translation by author Nele Stuhler. So far, so classic. Less classic was the publicity that the rehearsal process received from the fact that it was accompanied by a blog and the lead actress Luana Velis also kept a rehearsal diary on the streaming portal Twitch.
Thus, even before its premiere, the production had an audience that could follow online how Velis refused to rehearse and - like her character, Oblomow(a) - decided to shift to staying home and doing nothing, participating in rehearsals only online at most. It was a decision that was very timely in the pandemic autumn of 2021, and at the same time, very challenging to the routines of the theater.
Despite all this, a premiere took place at Schauspiel Köln on November 11, a hybrid event that brought together the analog theater audience with the online audience on Twitch.
In an interview with nachtkritik editor Sophie Diesselhorst, director Luk Perceval and dramaturg Lea Goebel describe how the project came about, look back on a month of "Oblomow Revisited" and show excerpts from rehearsals. Nachtkritik author Karin Yeşilada, who has written about the project, contributes her observations and inquiries from a critical outside perspective.
