Hauke Lanz on staging Werner Schwab's 'Anticlimax' at MC93 Bobigny

Key facts

• Werner Schwab died on New Year's Eve 1993 at age 35.
• His last play 'Anticlimax' was found on his desk after his death.
• Schwab began writing plays only in 1989 but produced a prolific, dense, and vehement body of work.
• 'Anticlimax' is directed, designed, and sound by Hauke Lanz.
• The play runs at MC93 in Bobigny from March 19 to April 12, 2002.
• It also runs at La Rose des Vents in Villeneuve d'Ascq from April 18 to 24, 2002.
• Hauke Lanz founded the company Deus Ex Machina in 1989.
• Lanz assisted Richard Foreman and Romeo Castellucci.
• Lanz met Leonora Carrington in Mexico and staged her play in a cathedral.
• Lanz's Schwab cycle includes 'Les Présidentes' (1998), 'Mesalliance mais on s'encule merveilleusement' (Graz), and 'Anticlimax'.
• Lanz uses gradual approach and free association inspired by Freud and Lacan.
• The play's characters include Marie, her father, mother, brother, a policeman, a doctor, and a priest.
• Schwab wrote nightly listening to industrial music and drinking cheap schnapps.
• Schwab lived in a damp, windowless cellar with his mother in his early years.