Poetic stumbling blocks and fatal electric shocks at “Prose for Elisabeth”

Most recently neglected at the Tyrolean Landestheater, the playwright, director, director and librettist Händl Klaus, born in Rum near Innsbruck, returns to the game plan with two productions this year under the directorate of Irene Girkinger. After the successful start of the season with Georg Friedrich Haas’ according to Händl’s Libretto composed chamber opera Love song In autumn came on Sunday Prose for Elisabeth For the premiere, a collection of poetically rhythmic, tragicomic text miniatures that are filled with unpredictable, disherredes, antiheroes and absurdities.