Broadway classics on the Anker stage
Burghausen actors Oliver Vilzmann and Anna März in “Endstation Sehnsucht”
The play “Endstation Sehnsucht” by Tennessee Williams is one of the great Broadway classics with almost 600 productions, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and has been filmed several times, most famously with Marlon Brando. Now the drama is coming to the Ankersaal in a production by the Straubinger Theater Plan B with the two Burghausen actors Anna März and Oliver Vilzmann in the main roles on Saturday, April 20th, 20.00 p.m.
“Endstation Sehnsucht” is one of the masterpieces of American post-war drama and is classified in the canon of classic dramas of the 20th century. The play, influenced by the teachings of Sigmund Freud, is about the complex confrontation between the violent macho Stanley Kowalski with Polish roots and the apparently well-educated, sensitive and fragile self-illusionist and former Southern Belle Blanche DuBois. The background is the decline of the aristocratic culture of the old American southern states and the change in social conditions in newer America, which is characterized by industrialization, harsh market laws and ethnic diversity.
The fight between the two protagonists for dominance over Stella, Blanche's sister, not only addresses the general battle of the sexes, but also the confrontation between backward-looking nostalgia and progressive optimism for the future on the one hand, as well as between the opposing social subcultures of the old southern aristocracy and the new Eastern European immigrants and the opposing ones Value systems of art and culture in contrast to crude materialism on the other hand. Blanche's inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, or illusion and reality, ends in dramatic catastrophe.
“The ensemble (…) masters the balancing act between madness, love and violence with acting bravura,” writes Allegra Knobloch in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the two Burghausen actors Anna März and Oliver Vilzmann, who play the main roles alongside Marysol Remy and Robert Gregor Kühn play. Anna März and Oliver Vilzmann have close ties to Burghausen, live and work here and have been part of the Burghausen creative scene for decades.
Oliver Vilzmann is not only an actor, but also works as a director, musician, author and illustrator. He has already played Claudius (Hamlet, director: Mario Eick), Frankenstein's Creature (director: Andreas Wiedermann), Romeo (director: Uwe Bertram), among others in various theaters from Burghausen to Salzburg to Vienna (Mozarteum, Salzburg; Jungle, Vienna; Herrenchiemsee Festival, Carl Orff Festival, etc.) As a songwriter, composer and producer in a wide variety of styles under various pseudonyms, Oliver Vilzmann has already developed over 200 analogue and digital productions.
Anna März, born in Rosenheim in 1986, took part in her first acting workshop at the age of 15 and has been on stage ever since. Until her acting training in 2009, she took part in many theater productions. In 2012 she completed her training at the “Neue Münchner Schauspielschule” and won the coveted “Lore Bronner Prize for Theater” in the same year. Since then she has worked constantly as an actress in, among others, the “Junge Schauspielensemble München”, “Rationaltheater”, “Galli Theater” and the “Theater für die Jugend” in Burghausen. In her private life, Anna März enjoys spending time off stage in rehearsal rooms making music or in nature to find peace.
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