After a winter of discontent, a glorious summer in Salzburg Lars Eidinger, left, and Verena Altenberger, front, in Jedermann, directed by Michael Sturminger. Eidinger, 45, has become the latest in a long line of German and Austrian acting greats to tackle the main role in Jedermann, Hugo von Hofmannsthals 1911 version of a medieval morality play that is the festivals oldest tradition and possibly its strangest. Matthia Horn via The New York Times. by A.J. Goldmann (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Those lines, perhaps the most famous opening in all of English drama, go unspoken in the Salzburg Festivals new production Richard the Kid and the King, a cradle-to-grave chronicle of the Bards most ruthless monarch. Yet the monologue was ringing in my ears as I left the theater after four hours of greed, betrayal, hypocrisy, infanticide, decapitation and disembowelment.