Mozartpocalypse

By the time the cavemen tried to rape a woman at the U-Bahn station, I was no longer paying much attention.

You see, I thought I was going to see a musical performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Comic Opera on Saturday night. But thanks to a delightful artistic fad called Regietheater, "Director Theater", what I got for my money was actually a theatrical performance that used Mozart's Requiem as background noise.

The idea behind Director Theater seems to be that since everything old-fashioned is dead, irrelevant, insignificant, and useless, the only way to find artistic value in it is by cannibalizing it and using its parts to add an air of respectability to bad plays.

If you're interested in the phenomenon, for which the Comic Opera in Berlin seems to be a sort of ground zero, you can read about it here.

I've also included a video promo for the performance below. Keep your eyes out for the above-mentioned cavemen, the slumber party in the slaughterhouse, the plague comes to the nail salon, death as an old man in a helmet, cape, and Underoos, the angels performing surgery on a man in the chapel, and the mass suicide on Mt. Sinai.