Nachtland

The Belgian company tg STAN presents Nachtland in Madrid, a play by Marius von Mayenburg that combines black humour and provocation to examine the tensions of present-day Europe.

Nachtland, a text by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg, follows two brothers who, while clearing out their recently deceased father's house, find a hidden painting in the attic. The work, attributed to Adolf Hitler, depicts a street scene in Vienna in the 1920s, and its discovery sets off a situation that grows more complicated as prejudices, interests and opposing political positions come to the surface.

The production, by the collective tg STAN, builds a story in which the characters become trapped in a web of beliefs that are hard to sustain. The piece questions how convictions change when they clash with personal interests and with the gaze of others, in a scathing and disturbing register.

The performance is in Dutch with Spanish surtitles. The collective, founded in 1989, is a regular at the Festival de Otoño, where in 2022 it presented Infidèles, based on Ingmar Bergman, and Dances for an actress, alongside Jolente De Keersmaeker and Jérôme Bel.