Der Menschenfeind – Alceste and Célimène

Alceste despises society’s games, its lies and masks. He demands uncompromising honesty – yet falls in love with Célimène, who embodies everything he rejects: intelligent, quick-witted and a master of the social game.

Caught between love and rejection, intimacy and the desire to change the other, their relationship becomes the heart of Molière’s DER MENSCHENFEIND. Can Alceste love Célimène without asking her to become someone else? And can love endure when two ways of looking at life could hardly be more different?