Schaubühne

Eugene Onegin

Oct 3 – Oct 31, 2012

Alexander Pushkin is considered Russia’s greatest poet and the creator of the language of modern literary Russian. Eugene Onegin is his most famous work. The director Alvis Hermamis follows the protagonists through the early 19th century, a world that has since become very...

Die Tiefe

Oct 30

The Return of Ulysses

Oct 29 – Oct 30, 2012

Ulysses is called to wage war for a cause that does not concern him. Penelope waits 20 years for his return – or news of his death. It’s an existence in permanent limbo. Her previous life is over and she cannot start a new one as long as the whereabouts of her husband remain...

Hamlet

Sep 21 – Oct 27, 2012

Hamlet is going crazy. His father has died suddenly of a strange disease, and his mother has married her deceased husband’s brother, of all people, after just one month. Hamlet has nighttime visions of his father, who claims his brother poisoned him, and exhorts Hamlet to take...

Bunny

Oct 24

Katie, an 18 year old middle-class kid from a liberal family, doesn’t want to be a good girl anymore. With smaller and larger inept acts of rebellion she tries again and again to shake up her dull, normal life in the London suburb of Luton, to feel alive and find excitement and...

Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Oct 10 – Oct 24, 2012

When Christiane F.’s report was first published as a book in 1978, educators were jubilant. They hoped, at last, to hold the key to keeping young people away from addictive substances. They were to be bitterly disappointed: »The unexpected success of the book had disturbing...

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Oct 22 – Oct 23, 2012

A work by Johann Sebastian Bach forms the basis of a theatrical evening. What appears to be the epitome of a total world of sound conceals a real story full of philosophical and political wrangling – in a community in which everyone is searching for their own sound.

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat

Oct 6 – Oct 21, 2012

The showdown between two revolutionary thinkers who could not be more opposed: Jean-Paul Marat, a leading figure of the French Revolution, and the Marquis de Sade, who completely lacks faith in humanity and its capacity to progress, takes place against the backdrop of a theatre...

Miss Julie

Oct 19 – Oct 20, 2012

Strindberg's classic tragedy tells how the aristocratic Julie encounters the servant Jean in the kitchen of the manor. Jean's fiancée, Kristin also comes and goes and eventually falls asleep in the kitchen where Jean and Julie continue to flirt with one another, uninhibited by...

The Good Person of Szechwan

Oct 16 – Oct 18, 2012

Shen Te, a youngwoman forced into prostitution by povertywho is rewarded handsomely after opening her home to three visiting gods. Disproving their contention that no goodness still exists on earth,Shen Te is givenmoney for her hospitality and she buys a humble tobacco shop...