© Martin Skoog
Night Watch
(Nachtwache)
Translated by Angelika Gundlach
2F / 2M
Night Watch picks up on the themes of the play Demons once more: John's mother has died, John and Charlotte have just returned home from the cremation. There they have an argument - about their social standing, their supposedly screwed-up lives, the upcoming visit of John's brother and wife, who will arrive soon after. In the end the situation escalates. Night Watch is a demonstration of the "everyday madness of the western world: people who have been robbed of their capacity to form attachments by progressive capitalism... a true piece of art about the possibilities of hurting each other" (Frankfurter Rundschau) and a "nightmarish comedy of tragedy" (Theater heute).
World premiere
16.2.1985 Dramaten, Stockholm (Director: Christian Tomner)
German language premiere
4.4.1986 Schauspielhaus Bochum (Director: Alfred Kirchner)
Other premieres
Spanish language premiere 15.07.2015 Teatro San Martin (WA: Teatro Picadero), Buenos Aires (Translator: Francisco Javier Uriz, Director: Daniel Veronese)
Japanese premiere: 22.9.19 Theatre Fushikaden, Tokyo (Translator: Miho Hellén-Halme)
Portuguese premiere März 2008, Teatro do Bolhaõ, Porto (Translator: Cristina Canavarro, Director: João Paulo Costa)
Greek premiere Mnimi Theatre, Athen Oktober 2010 (Translator: Xenofon Pagkalilas and Kostas Koukoulis)
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