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The persians by Aischylos 472 BC
For the basis was used the floor plan and the section of the theater in Mainz. With this design the old form of an ancient greek theater is revisited in a new way. It resembles an arena but not shifted in a round but in an oval shape translocated to the right side.
The wooden planks are made black and show the rustic character. They are attached to a brass-coloured modular system of scaffoldings on which the choir is placed along. The staircase at the center of the stage design is standing for the exaggeratedness, the cockiness of Xerxes who wants to go "upstairs", but fails... Accordingly the staircase ends in nothingness. One can not escape from the arena.
Inside, the destruction, the doubt and the pride as well as the pursuit to something unattainable reacts with the outside that appears beautiful and strong. The people, the choir is looking inside the "whole" from the outside.