Experience the long-lost fourth part of the Oresteia! For millennia, we have awaited this moment! Thomas Köck has unearthed this fragment in Mexico. Accompanied by a Satyr Chorus and featuring Samuel Koch as the mythological shapeshifter Proteus, this production turns conventional theater on its head. The Kammerspiele presents the sensational world premiere of a piece that is 2,481 years old: "proteus 2481", the long-missing conclusion of the Oresteia! An Austrian philologist discovers fragments of a Spanish-Latin text while traveling through Mexico, translates them, and employs an AI to fill in the gaps, ultimately holding a hilarious Satyr play by Aeschylus in his hands.

In a time when tragedy seems omnipresent, nothing is more needed than a good old Satyr play to finally put an end to the tragedies surrounding the demise of democracy. A Mexican theater collective, a choir of cognitively and visually impaired actresses and musicians, along with actors from the Kammerspiele fluent in Spanish and Ancient Greek, join forces in a satirical celebration led by Samuel Koch as the shapeshifter Proteus to question the conventions of theater.

Thomas Köck, who directed the commissioned work for the Kammerspiele "Eure Paläste sind leer", which was invited to the author theater days in Berlin, makes his directorial debut at the Kammerspiele with this production. "A Satyr play doesn't sound so tragic. The existential deadlock transforms into a celebration, and that caught me immediately when I read it in a small bodega in Veracruz." - Thomas Köck, Philologist and Director