«The Lathe of Heaven» is a Split Reality theater performance, which invites the audience to become witnesses to a constantly shifting reality. Based on the science fiction story of the same name by author Ursula K. Le Guin, the performance explores the search for a world more just
 and the impossibility of a simple solution.

In 2002, George Orr, an engineer suffering from insomnia, visits the psychiatrist William Haber. Orr has realized that his dreams are powerful—they alter reality. Only Orr himself knows what reality was like before. Initially skeptical, William Haber soon observes how Orr’s dreams trigger phenomena ranging from the seemingly trivial to the global. He decides to harness this power to “improve” the world according to his own vision: Haber begins hypnotizing his patient. But his manipulations have fatal unintended consequences. When Orr realizes he is being manipulated, he brings in attorney Heather La Lache, and together a struggle for power, reality, and responsibility unfolds.

«Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes… But when the mind becomes conscious, when the rate of evolution speeds up, then you have to be careful. Careful of the world. You must learn the way. You must learn the skills, the art, the limits. A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally and carefully – as the rock is part of the whole unsconsciously.»

– Ursula K. Le Guin

basierend auf “The Lathe of Heaven” von Ursula K. Le Guin.
Übersetzung aus dem amerikanischen Englisch Joachim Körber
Konzept & Regie: F. Wiesel (Hanke Wilsmann & Jost von Harleßem)
Creative Coding: Sebastian Heckner
Bühne & Kostüm: Hannah von Eiff
Dramaturgie: Ida Feldmann

Premiere: 11.02.2027 Staatstheater Nürnberg, XRT in der 3. Etage / Tickets & Infos