Law firm clerk Bartleby's diligence and conscientiousness can't be beat. But one day he begins to refuse tasks assigned to him by his employer with a friendly "I'd rather not". The lawyer is perplexed, stunned ...
With "Bartleby the Clerk," this subversive tale of refusal, Melville created a cult book that continues to provoke vigorous debate within philosophy and sociology. Is "doing nothing" already boycott? Bartleby - slacker or free spirit? Victim or perpetrator? Exciter or breeder?
It plays: Reinhard Hinzpeter
Direction: Bettina Kaminski
Stage: Gerd Friedrich
Dramaturgy: Sten Volkemer
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