Author: Olesia Vitiuk

1.02. & 2.02.2025: Guest performance KEIMZELLEN by Rébecca Déraspe at Staatsschauspiel Dresden

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KEIMZELLEN (orig. Les Gametes) by Rébecca Déraspe
German translation by Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
Director: Michael Steindl

February 1 &  February 2, 2025 – Guest performance of Theater Duisburg at Staatsschauspiel Dresden

Aude and Lou are best friends, and for 35 years they have been able to find solace in each other’s sorrows of all kinds. For example, on Aude’s birthdays, when the ambitious civil engineer has a nervous breakdown every year. Lou – author of a feminist blog – naturally has an explanation for this: fear of ageing in a society where only youth and flawless beauty count. However, this time it’s different: Aude is pregnant. And her foetus has trisomy 21. Lou advises an abortion, Aude wants to keep the baby but doubts about her partner’s support.
The two women argue relentlessly openly about life and their own values – a declaration of love to female friendship.

30.01.2025: Premiere AZUR by Lisa Wentz at Theater in der Josefstadt

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AZUR ODER DIE FARBE VON WASSER
by Lisa Wentz
Director: David Bösch
Theater in der Josefstadt Wien

Hannes and Geri are young and in love, which Hannes’ mother sees as a punishment from God. The fact that they are both taught at a Catholic boarding school and that they are victims of sexual abuse will leave deep rifts across the generations.

The world premiere takes places on January 30, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
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23.01.2025: Ran Chai Bar-zvi stages CALIGULA at Volkstheater München

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CALIGULA
by Albert Camus
Directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi

Premiere at the Munich Volkstheater on January 23, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

The golden age is over – the young emperor is in mourning. After the death of his sister and lover Drusilla, he questions the meaning of human existence: “People die and they are not happy”. What follows are cruel years, full of executions and arbitrariness on the part of the power-obsessed ruler.
The shrinking of democratic processes and the worldwide flourishing of autocracies lend the play a new political dimension. At the same time, for Camus, as for Caligula, social artificiality remains the basic motif: the emperor as a total director and yet a seeker of unattainable freedom.
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21.01.2025: Premiere OEDIPUS by Ella Hickson at Old Vic London

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OEDIPUS after Sophocles
in a new adaptation by Ella Hickson
Directed by Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter
at the Old Vic

The Oracle of Delphi proclaims the prophecy: “Find and punish the murderer of the old King Laius – then all will be well!”. The murder is an unsolved case and the people turn to the new King Oedipus, the man who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, to hunt down the perpetrator and bring salvation. He vows to succeed at all costs, and so begins an unstoppable hunt for the truth through a labyrinth of fear and love.

The world premiere takes place on January 21, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Vic London.

Ayad Akhtar (USA)

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Ayad Akhtar ist Romanautor und Dramatiker. Seine Werke wurden in über zwanzig Sprachen veröffentlicht und aufgeführt. Er ist Träger des Pulitzer-Preises für Drama, der Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction und eines Literaturpreises der American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Als Dramatiker schrieb er Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony-Nominierung); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony-Nominierung); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); und The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier- und Evening Standard-Nominierungen). Sein Stück McNeal wird im Herbst 2024 im Vivian Beaumont Theater des Lincoln Center uraufgeführt.

Akhtar ist der Autor von Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), das als „Meisterwerk“ (Publisher’s Weekly) und „eine Tour de Force“ (The Washington Post) bezeichnet und von der New York Times zu einem der zehn besten Bücher des Jahres gewählt wurde. Sein erster Roman, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), wurde in über 20 Sprachen veröffentlicht.

Neben anderen Auszeichnungen erhielt Ayad Akhtar den Steinberg Playwrighting Award, den Nestroy Award, den Erwin Piscator Award sowie Stipendien von der American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, dem Sundance Institute und Yaddo, wo er als Board Director tätig ist. Darüber hinaus ist Ayad Akhtar Kuratoriumsmitglied bei PEN America, wo er von 2020 bis 2023 als Präsident fungierte. Im Jahr 2021 wurde Akhtar zum Autor des Staates New York ernannt, als Nachfolger von Colson Whitehead.

 

6.01.2025: Guest performance MONOPOLY by & with Calle Fuhr at Berliner Ensemble

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MONOPOLY – Eine Besteigung des deutschen Schuldenberges
by and with Calle Fuhr

Guest performance on January 6, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Berliner Ensemble.
Followed by an audience discussion with Carl Mühlbach (economist).

The recession is in full swing, there is a lack of money in the next federal budget, and Calle Fuhr wants to make his contribution to the economic stabilization of the FRG. If every citizen donates something to the state, Fuhr thinks, the debt hole can close quickly!
But it’s not that simple.
Lecture performance by and with Calle Fuhr.

A co-production of Theater Magdeburg and the Festival OSTEN

14.12.2024: Premiere ELLEN BABIĆ by Marius von Mayenburg at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf

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ELLEN BABIĆ
by Marius von Mayenburg
Director: Anton Schreiber

When Astrid invites her boss Wolfram Balderkamp to an informal work meeting to her place, her partner Klara is outraged. Balderkamp teaches at the school where Klara was Astrid’s student ten years ago. What happens when he remembers her? Besides, she can’t forgive his ‘learning methods’. What does Astrid want from him?
Like a spider, Wolfram roams the apartment, weaving a dangerous web with his questioning: Where did the two meet? And when exactly? Whether this one bath towel was gifted to Astrid by students of the current year? And what exactly had happened with that one girl on the class trip?

13.12.2024: Premiere PLANET B by Yael Ronen & Itai Reicher at Theater Heidelberg

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PLANET B
by Yael Ronen & Itai Reicher

Premiere on December 13, 2024 at Theater and Orchester Heidelnberg
Director: Cilli Drexel

In the not-so-distant future, climate change has continued unabated, many species are already extinct, vast areas are barely habitable… A race begins to see who deserves to survive. Welcome to the alien entertainment reality show in which humans compete with chickens, pandas, ants, crocodiles and foxes to recolonize the earth as the only surviving species.
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