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After his highly acclaimed Bochum reinterpretation of Iphigenia based on Euripides and Elfriede Jelinek, the award-winning director Dušan David Pařízek now turns his attention to Ibsen's restless traverser of the world and, with an acting ensemble around Anna Drexler in the title role as well as plenty of music, shakes up the play vigorously.
 

CONCERT: SUN, 30.01.22, 20:00

Director Jim Jarmusch and composer Carter Logan (aka avant-garde post-rock duo SQÜRL) play live to four surreal and dreamlike silent films by artist Man Ray. "We are very proud to be Man Ray's backing band." (Jim Jarmusch)

Everyone knows Popeye the Sailor. But who is Olivia Oil? This play by Israeli playwright Sivan Ben Yishai tells the story of the famous comic hero and his less famous girlfriend as an explicit play. With no taboos and a lot of humour directed by Zita Gustav Wende, performed by ensemble member Jele Brückner.

Sibylle Berg lets a modern Everyman rant, complain and contemplate about the condition of our society. A man stands in his kitchen, and while he cooks a menu of several courses from the finest ingredients, he lets his thoughts run free. The "feel good" dinner turns into an explosive cocktail of self-pity and anger, because something is definitely going wrong in the state of Germany. Anna Stiepani directs and Bernd Rademacher plays.

Global warming is advancing, wars are destroying ever larger parts of the world, corporations are exploiting the earth and its resources to the hilt: The planet we live on is doomed. But we have the solution to save the world: a migration to Mars!
 

Two actors, a technician and a musician are waiting for their play to begin. Everything is ready – but where’s the audience? They’re meant to be sold out. But everything is a little bit different today. The Invisible Man is all about what you can’t see. About invisiblity. And secretly it’s also about how nice it can be not being seen.
 

Afraid to die? People no longer remember. In the future in Elias Canetti's play Die Befristeten, the date of death is fixed for all human beings, from birth. There are no more fatal accidents, no more murder in the conventional sense, the oldest people are generally considered to be the most valuable, and death is romantically called "the moment".
 

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.
 

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.