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Dirty Hands

by Jean-Paul Sartre
directed by Jan Bosse

New translation by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel commissioned by the Schauspielhaus Zürich

«You speak against your heart.»

Times are restless, shaken by war, when young Hugo joins the communist party in the fictional country of Illyria. He seeks to flee his intellectual childhood home and its bourgeois privilege to fight for justice. Conflicts rage between various powers in the country, which is why party leader Hoederer is striving for a strategic alliance with the opposition – to the dissatisfaction of the radical party members. They decide to do away with him. To do something for once, Hugo plays hit man and moves with his wife Jessica into Hoederer’s house. Fueled by revolutionary ideals, he meets an experienced political realist who captivates him, and Hugo’s principles begin to waver.

Sartre’s 1948 piece is both timeless political thriller and strategic experiment about conduct, values, and humanity. Here it is the hands of Jan Bosse, who lends the philosophical text a playful staging. Contemplating power and morality, freedom and responsibility, Bosse returns to Schauspielhaus Zürich six years later.

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Thur
5.12.24
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Cast and Team

With
Steven
Sowah
With
Wolfram
Koch
With
Carol
Schuler
With
Lena
Schwarz
With
Thomas
Wodianka
With
Gottfried
Breitfuss
Staging
Jan Bosse
Stage design
Moritz Müller
Costume design
Kathrin Plath
Music
Arno Kraehahn
Light
Frank Bittermann
Dramaturgy
Artistic Mediation T&S
Director’s Assistant
Mahlia Theismann
Stage design assistance
Costume design assistance
Anna Toni Vyshnyakova
Stage design intern
Doreen Härich
Inspection
Aleksandar Sascha Dinevski
Soufflage
János Stefan Buchwardt
Surtitle coordination
Sinikka Weber
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