---

In a monologue based on the life stories of war photographers and his own experiences, director Milo Rau explores the fragility of our certainties: Why is violence so tempting? What remains when war and terror destroy the world as we know it?
In “The Seer”, Ursina Lardi plays a war photographer who travels to conflict areas around the world seeking images of dread. She seems always one step ahead of the suffering, and at the same time untouchable. Until she has first-hand experience of what it means to be subjected to violence herself. The celebrated war photographer becomes a jaundiced Cassandra warning of horrors to come.

Milo Rau returns with a powerful performance that explores the tragedy of the contemporary world in an exceptional directorial vision.

---

Inspired by: Philoctetus by Sophocles
Text and Direction by: Milo Rau

Set and costume: Anton Lukas

Sound design: Elia Rediger

Video: Moritz von Dungern

Dramaturgy: Bettina Ehrlich, Carmen Hornbostel

Research: Ursina Lardi, Milo Rau

Lighting: Stefan Ebelsberger

Translation, language coach Arabic: Susana Abdul Majid

Advice, coordination (Iraq): Sardar Abdullah

Producers: Schaubühne Berlin

Co-producers: Co-production Vienna Festival | Free Republic of Vienna, La Biennale di Venezia

Cast: Ursina Lardi, Hassan Azad (Video)

---