Spielgeist: Eine Phantasie

The drama opens with a royal household in frantic mourning over the disappearance of Imma, and grief spills into ritualized lament and searching. In a crypt a spirit debates life, love, and mortality with Imma and conjures uncanny root-figures that mimic human attendants, provoking horror and frenzy. A forest scene explores yearning and hesitation between Ratibor and Brinhildis, where desire, fidelity, and the animal vitality of nature collide. A moonlit, phantasmagoric garden stages dance, play, and artifice as living and made beings intermingle. Through expressionistic images, music, and ritual, the work probes loss, creation, and the porous boundary between life and imitation.