Review: ‘Die Monosau’ Revives Chaotic Energy in Berlin
From left, Susanne Bredehöft and Benny Claessens in Jonathan Meese’s “Die Monosau” at the Volksbühne in Berlin.
Credit: Apollonia T. Bitzan
Theatergoers at the opening night of “Die Monosau” at the Volksbühne in Berlin on Friday, were promised a “guaranteed director-free evening,” and that is exactly what they got.
The play was inspired by texts that the German artist and enfant terrible Jonathan Meese penned in the 1990s, but the production is attributed to no one in particular. Or rather, the program cryptically credits the acronym “K.U.N.S.T.” (the German word for “art”) as director. It remained vague, however, whether this was a collective name for the artists who had brought this work to freakish, twitching life, or whether this was an abstract affirmation of the cosmic power of art.
