Max Black


Main stage
With: ANDRE WILMS Conception, music and direction: HEINER GOEBBELS
Set and light design: KLAUS GRÜNBERG
Pyrotechnic design: PIERRE-ALAIN HUBERT
Costumes: JASMIN ANDREAE
Sound design: WILLI BOPP
Musical contribution and live-sampling: MARKUS HECHTLE
Dramaturgy: STEPHAN BUCHBERGER
Director’s assistant: KATJA ARMKNECHT
Texts: PAUL VALÉRY, GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, MAX BLACK

On tour:
Stage manager: NICOLAS BRIDEL
Light manager: ROBY CARRUBA
Sound design: WILLI BOPP
Live-sampling: MARKUS HECHTLE
Stage: PIERRE KISSLING
Tour manager: ELIZABETH GAY
Under the technical direction of: MICHEL BEUCHAT
Date of the opening: november 27, 2012
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Switzerland
In French, with Hungarian, Romanian and English subtitles
1 hour 15 minutes without intermission
Photo: Mario del Curto

Co-producers: TAT, Francfort deSingel, Anvers, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Marstall, Munich, MIGORS Pour-cent culturel
 
With the support: STEIM-Studio for Electronic and Instrumental Music, Amsterdam, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
In Max Black, everything that the actor does will be transformed into light (fire), image (action) and music (sound).The entire music – the sounds and the noises - will be produced and triggered by the actor. The stage is a laboratory of ideas which the spectator can follow. André Wilms reproduces (through the use of a sampler) his own previously recorded sounds. Language becomes music by developing a poetic manner, and by dissolving into abstraction (e.g., when a math formula is transformed into music). On the other hand, every sound can be used musically, but with a concrete basis.
 
Heiner Goebbels used for his composition texts by Paul Valéry, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Max Black in French and English.