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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.

"Johan Simons described Kleist's tragedy as 'a cry for love and a cry against war', and in fact he leaves no room for war on stage. Rather, he shifts it completely into the centre of the action, namely the battle of the sexes, which the actors Sandra Hüller and Jens Harzer carry out with great virtuosity." (taz)

(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!

Our young players storm the stage of the Kammerspiele again. Selected by the critics' platform nachtkritik.de as one of the most remarkable productions of 2018, we are looking forward to this eagerly awaited revival.

Doppelvorstellung der beiden Meisterwerke von Michel Houellebecq
Regie: Johan Simons • Bühne: Bert Neumann

For two decades the band led by singer and mastermind Stuart Staples has existed as Tindersticks. Their genre might be termed “tragic pop”: dense and complex songs with ambitious lyrics wrapped up in an almost dark atmosphere borne along by emotionally sweeping strings. We eagerly await their first concert on the main stage at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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.
 

Mit einer Neuinterpretation von Euripides‘ Iphigenie in Aulis inszeniert der mehrfach preisgekrönte tschechische Regisseur Dušan David Pařízek erstmals am Schauspielhaus Bochum. Ihn interessiert dabei auch die Frage, auf welcher Grundlage Männer über das Leben von Frauen entscheiden beziehungsweise wie weiblich das Gesicht des Krieges auch sein kann?
 

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.
 

We present the award-winning original production
of the world premiere in German.

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