We celebrate the impossibility of retrieving the past. Inspired by large quantities of documentary material from 100 years of the so called Bochumer Stil, the story follows scene after scene, hundreds of costumes are put on and taken off again, transformations take place, curtain after curtain opens.
Circa two dozen songs, mainly from pop music, with excursions into classical music, lead through the 100 years of Bochum´s theatre history, which began on 15 April 1919 with the employment of the first actresses and actors and the first artistic director.
 

With New Joy, choreographer Eleanor Bauer and composer Chris Peck create a Dataist cyber-acapella concert-happening with gesamkunstthings - a musical from the future. New Joy appeals to all of the senses to make sense in a synaesthetic training program for the twenty-first century – and beyond.
 

Doppelpremiere der beiden Meisterwerke von Michel Houellebecq
Regie: Johan Simons • Bühne: (nach) Bert Neumann

The next theatrical coup after MURMEL MURMEL by the iconic director.
Herbert Fritsch stages the Marquis de Sade! 
"It's not about provocation at all. It's about the unexpected in yourself. And it's about never forgetting the play in the theatre." (Herbert Fritsch)

Ein Liederabend über 100 Jahre Theater in Bochum
ab 22.02.2019 im Schauspielhaus

„Selten hat man ein so phantastisch zusammengesetztes Ensemble gesehen, bei dem alle mit gleichem Mut auftreten und doch höchst verschieden sind.“ (FAZ, Simon Strauß)