Der Untergang des Hauses Usher

based on the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe

In his short story, first published in 1839, the American author Edgar Allan Poe tells of primal human fears and the battle of the mind against dark impulses in his typical mixture of grotesque situations and subtle horror, but also reflects on friendship, empathy and love beyond death in a tenderly poetic way.

The students of puppet theater have now taken on this story and tell it between the remains of old theater productions with shadows, projections and puppets. The result is a crazy play that ranges from gentle shivers to sheer horror and drags us down with it.

"I know not how it was, but with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks."

A production of the puppet theater course at the HMDK Stuttgart

the actors are: Zoé Broneer, Mara Jawetz, Anna-Maria Shawky, Isabel Schrader

Director: Stephanie Rinke
Assistant director: Emilien Truche
Stage: Kersten Paulsen
Film: Alvaro Garcia