KASIMIR & KAROLINE

A chaotic fairground. A tight throng of people. Flashing lights and half-empty beer glasses. You want to have fun, but you can’t. This is Kasimir. This is Karoline. Beautiful and strong. Searching and sad.

A new adaptation of Ödön von Horváth’s classic play, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival and performed by 25 living in Austria. World premiere in Salzburg, Austria in August 2017. Nominated for the 2017 Nestroy Prize.

From the play by Ödön von Horváth
Adaptation by 600 HIGHWAYMEN, in collaboration with Saša Čelecki

Created & Directed by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Music by Brandon Wolcott
Set and Costume Design by Anneliese Neudecker
Dramaturg: Stefanie Hackl
Assistant Director: Christoph Buchegger

Performed by:
Ella Badura, Aldo Banovaz, Alaaeldin Dyab, Lili Epply, Helga Grissmann, Glen Hawkins, Ron Iyamu, Marie Jensen, Eva Christine Just, Gabriela Kaegi, Günter Krall, Ivy Lißack, Simon Nagl, Lukas Pöckl, Anna Posch, Maresi Riegner, Antonia Rucker, Bernhard Georg Rusch, Vincent Sauer, Sebastian Schneider, Valentina Schüler, Andreas Weiss, Genet Zegay

Photos by: Alexi Pelekanos

“To let Karoline embody the same actress throughout the evening would be to exaggerate the individuality of the character – that’s the premise of the directing concept, which proves to be terrific.

The material has been re-recorded, picked up, returned together. Karoline is a young woman like any other. Conversely, every young woman has something from Karoline, and every old woman, too.”

— FRANKFURTHER ALLGEMEINE

2017: Premiere: Salzburg Festival, August 11-18, 2017
2019: Silverstone and Browde’s adaptation at The Gate Theater, London (April 2019) and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff (March 2019)

A THOUSAND WAYS • THE COLLECTORS • EMPIRE CITY
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR • EVERYONE WAS CHANTING YOUR NAME • THE FEVER
THE FOLLOWING EVENING • KASIMIR & KAROLINE • MANMADE EARTH • THE RECORD
THEATER OF THE MIND • THIS TIME TOMORROW • THIS GREAT COUNTRY • THE TOTAL PEOPLE