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MÖBIUS Musical Theater performance at the RLO (Based on The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt)

Registration of the performance of Möbius, a bilingual play adapted and directed by Malte Huthoff, based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists". Spoken languages English and Dutch. For subtitles in Dutch, English or German use the CC button. Soundtrack Playlist (click on time code to jump to song): 0:01:07 - Welcome to the pleasure dome, By Franky goes to Hollywood 0:07:47 - Salut d'amour, Op12, by Edward Elgar 0:15:34 and 0:22:51 - Tutu, by Miles Davis 0:36:30 - The final countdown, by Europe 0:52:04 - Psycho Killer, by The Talking Heads 0:56:46 - De bom, by Doe Maar 0:59:41 - Let's go crazy, by Prince 1:12:02 - A view to a kill, by Duran Duran 1:23:26 - Wine with Stacey, by John Barry 1:25:15 - Witch Doctor, by De Staat 1:31:56 - Radioactive, by Imagine Dragons 1:36:32 - 1999 (2023 version), by Prince Musical arrangements by Mark van der Laaken For pictures go to: https://rlotoneelproducties.myportfolio.co... For more information go to: https://www.isrlo.nl/2023/02/20/premiere-m... Thoughts on Möbius… The Möbius-strip is a mathematical model; it resembles the infinity symbol, with one distinctive difference: It's twisted, if you follow Möbius’ path, the world gets flipped upside down, over and over again. “The Physicists”, written in 1961 by the Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt, during the height of the cold war, hasn’t been performed in the Netherlands for ages. The urgency to produce a play referring to the nuclear armament of the east and the west was simply absent. Why would one stage it now? The cold war ended in 1989, right?... or has it been lingering on invisibly, escalating once again in 2022. With tensions rising in 2023, more and more often one hears the question: Is the end of the world just around the corner? With our leaders’ apparent inaction, will science prove to be humanity’s savior or its’ undoing? With financial gain being the main motor to move things in the world, does mankind actually still stand a chance of coming together, to agree to avoid catastrophe? The apocalypse? The definite ending? A play asking these questions you would expect to take place in palaces, army barracks, bunkers and secret laboratories with the action spread out over several months. But no, our action takes place on one single day, sometime during the eighties in a madhouse for the world's elite in beautiful neutral Switzerland. With a fresh corpse on the crime scene we follow inspector Voss’ path on his endeavor of solving the mystery. It is not so much a whodunit, because it is clear who is the killer. But why? Why did he do it? What is the motive of the killer(s)? All actors portrayed in the video are students at the Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest. And the marvelous RLO orchestra sets the tone for this ingenious dark comedy. About Dürenmatt and "The Physicists": Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a supporter of the so-called epic theater. Epic theater distinguishes itself from other theater styles by its premise that theater not only serves to entertain the audience, but should provoke a discussion. Specifically in regard to his dark comedy “The physicists” Dürrenmatt added the following 21 points: 1 I'm not starting from a thesis, but from a story. 2 If one starts with a story, one has to think it through to the end. 3 A story is thought to the end when it has taken its worst possible turn. 4 The worst possible turn of events is unpredictable. It happens by accident. 5 The art of the playwright consists in using chance as effectively as possible in a plot. 6 The bearers of a dramatic action are people. 7 The coincidence in a dramatic action consists of: When and where who happens to meet whom. 8 The more forward planning a person proceeds, the harder that person will be struck by coincidence. 9 Forward planning people want to achieve a certain goal. Chance always hits them hardest when their own actions lead to achieving the opposite of their goal: What they feared, what they were trying to avoid (e.g. Oedipus). 10 Such a story is grotesque, but not absurd (nonsensical). 11 It is paradoxical. 12 Dramatists, like logicians, cannot avoid the paradox. 13 Physicists can no more avoid the paradox than logicians. 14 A play about the physicists must be paradoxical. 15 It cannot target the content of physics, it can only target its effects on mankind. 16 The content of physics concerns physicists, its effects concerns all people. 17 That which concerns everyone, can only be resolved by everyone. 18 Every attempt by a person to individually resolve what concerns everyone, must fail. 19 Reality appears in the paradoxical. 20 Those who face the paradox expose themselves to reality. 21 Theater can trick the viewer into confronting reality, but not force it to withstand it or to overcome it.