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Sibylle Berg, eine der erbarmungslosesten deutschsprachigen Autor*innen der Gegenwart, hat für Elsie de Brauw ein Drehbuch über die Auflösung eines Lebens inmitten der letzten Zuckungen der westlichen Welt geschrieben, eine bourgeoise Untergangsphantasie voll beißenden Spotts und morbider Schönheit.
 

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Katja Brunner (*1991), eine der aufsehenerregendsten Stimmen der Schweizer Gegenwartsdramatik, entwirft eine klaustrophobische Sprachlandschaft, in der man zwischen Küken und Ameisen, Erdkern und Schneeschmelze spazieren gehen kann.
 

+++ The acting students of the 3rd year of the Folkwang University of the Arts will perform. +++

The United States. It's a very hot summer in Leister County. A stranger is killed on a farm. However, the following trial does not investigate the murder, but negotiates the coverage of the crime and its consequences. The trial on which this play is based actually took place in 1956 and yet it is full of current topics: xenophobia, hatred, fake news, the use of guns.

The performance focuses on our elderly generation. This evening, filled with joy and tragedy, shows what seniors can pass on and that ageing shows a way to live openly, positively and fearlessly through this world. A biographical journey from the first crush, through the first heartache, (un)planned pregnancies, exciting affairs, sexual reorientations and the death of loved ones.

Chekhov's protagonist is a heavily indebted landowner who, just a few years ago, was still full of ideals and plans. Now his strength is consumed and the love for his seriously ill wife has died out. Jens Harzer plays the famous anti-hero, the dark epi-centre in the midst of a helpless society.

(Tales from the Vienna Woods)
Ödön von Horváth's famous play tells of a lost and lying society with brilliant, bitterly evil wit. A masterpiece - staged by the award-winning director Karin Henkel!

A man and a woman sitting in a living room talking. Their conversation zigzags through their shared and undivided past and present. She tells, he listens and tries to get access to her thoughts, feelings and memories. This late work by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter is played by Elsie de Brauw and Guy Clemens.

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William Shakespeare turned an European legend into the philosophical story of a search for meaning that is still fascinating today. Directed by Johans Simons with Sandra Hüller in the title role, Hamlet becomes a plea for radical honesty.
 

After Work traces snapshots from the history of labour in calm, intense images. With dance, with acting, with music, with spoken words. A hybrid fusion of different ways of performing arts, where the boundaries between the art disciplines become blurred.

Following their acclaimed adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Bilder deiner großen Liebe director Tom Schneider and the musicians and actors Moritz Bossmann, Sandra Hüller and Sandro Tajouri embark on a new musical and theatrical adventure.

+++ FAMILY PLAY FOR 6 YEARS AND OLDER +++
In Bochum's most unusual laboratory, a team of scientists tries the impossible. Their mission is to build a robot with a real brain. They are succeeding: a little robot boy is being created! A lovely story with an amazing combination of acting, puppetry and music.