Jedermann. Medieval Mystery, Towards a Timeless-Contemporary Stage Directing

The both starting point and impetus from the content of Salzburg Festival which maintains the medieval-baroque identity of this artistic area, is Jedermann, a play without author, reformulated by the dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and initially put on stage by the director Max Reinhardt. The preservation of medieval mystery’s authentic character and street theatre’s efficacy from central european perimeter, becomes the connecting thread between a time defined by spirituality, devotion and specifically persuasion, through the artistic resources of popular theatre. These reasons tie without altering the ritual’s genuine coordinates which form the basis of this type of theatre’ s consistency, defined by the sacred energy of Domplatz. The route, fixed by the first director Max Reinhardt and his Regiebuch, symbolically impose the stable requirement of performance, which will accompany its chronological evolution until the most recent version, the mise-en-scene created by Robert Carsen, stability challenged by the expansiveness of theatricality during the 20th century.