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By Marius von Mayenburg
Translated by Maja Zade
Direction Benedict Andrews
With Gillian Jones, Robert Menzies, Hamish
Michael,
Bojana Novakovic, Greg Stone and Alison
Whyte
Set and Costume Design Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design Paul Jackson
Composition and Sound Design Max Lyandvert
Set in an unnamed, half-destroyed city where every ruin is speculated
for its
market value, Eldorado reveals a metropolis decayed to the
core. In this raven
black fable a man tells a single lie and risks everything he loves
and believes in.
As his life crumbles, so too do the foundations of an external world
built on
mythical visions of gold sinking fast into history’s bloody
catacombes.
Marius von Mayenburg exploded out of Berlin’s Schaubuhne
Theater and
onto the Australian stage with Fireface, a sell-out production
for the 2001
Sydney Festival, directed by multi-award winning Benedict Andrews.
After
numerous projects together in Berlin, Malthouse
Theatre reunites writer
and director for their Melbourne debut, the English language premiere
of von
Mayenburg’s baroque dystopia featuring an unforgettable cast.
At the forefront of a new, international theatre, von Mayenburg
writes with an
anatomist’s precision, a coroner’s efficiency and the
humour of an undertaker
about the inseparable nature of our private and public lives.
"If you’re serious about contemporary theatre, Eldorado
is not a show you can
afford to miss." THE AGE
"Benedict Andrews is one of the original imaginations of
Australian Theatre… in an artform that needs to be both popular
and pragmatic, Benedict manages
to remain that rare thing: a poet" Neil Armfield’s
citation for Benedict Andrews
on being awarded the 2005 Individual Prize of the Sidney Myer Performing
Arts
Awards
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