How to represent Judith's journey, which opens one by one the gates of Bluebeard Castle as if to reveal the hidden corners of an unfamiliar soul? Grögler replaces the doors with night table drawers, an eminently intimate space. The huge disused hall that serves as a palace amplifies each secret discovered by subtle changes in lighting. This hall, the two spouses accessed it by an old lift; superb image of the elevator whose descent breaks through the darkness.

A very personal and symbolic staging of both works by Stephan Grögler. Grögler interprets the work accurately. The characters; internal struggles and sufferings are credible. . . . The extreme reduction of the introspection of the two main characters of Blaubart; is in strong contrast to his interpretation of the Zwerg