Ferdinand von Schirach
Terror
Prešeren Theatre Kranj
Première: 3 December2017, Prešeren Theatre Kranj
Running time 1 hour 40 minutes. One interval.
Director Eduard Miler
Translator Jaša Drnovšek
Dramaturg Žanina Mirčevska
Set designer Branko Hojnik
Costume designer Jelena Proković
Video designer Atej Tutta
Music selection Eduard Miler
Language consultant Maja Cerar
Make-up designer Matej Pajntar
Lighting designer Bojan Hudernik
Assistant to costume designer Nina Prelovšek
Cast
Chairman Borut Veselko
Defendant Miha Rodman
Defense lawyer Aljoša Ternovšek
Public prosecutor Darja Reichman
Christian Lauterbach, witness Peter Musevski
Franziska Meiser, witness Vesna Slapar
Security officer Ciril Roblek as guest
Court reporter Judita Polak as guest
How to decide things that are not just black or white?
Terror deals with an exceptionally difficult moral and ethical dilemma, i.e. how to make decisions in extreme situations and how much individual human lives are worth. The play takes place in a courtroom where, along with military pilot Lars Koch (accused of the death of 164 plane passengers), the presiding judge, the defence, the public prosecutor and two witnesses are present as well as, of course, the audience who have to take on the role of jurors this time. They are the ones who decide the pilot’s guilt or innocence by casting a vote. During the trial against Lars Koch, it actually turns out that he made a judgement call for fewer victims in exchange for a greater number in a football stadium, which of course brings up ethical questions – how much is a person’s life actually worth? Is it better to shoot down a plane with 164 passengers to avoid the death of 70,000 people in a football stadium? Would the pilot have shot down the plane even if his family had been on board? The dilemma posed by the play and its performances is an ethical one of making an "impossible decision" over how to decide in extreme cases of acts of terrorism. The prosecuted pilot Lars Koch had to decide instantly how to save a situation and who to sacrifice.
Post-performance talk with the artists in the Mezzanine.
