VERLANGEN (DESIRE) by Lisa Wentz
an adaptation of DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS by Eugene O’Neill
German translation: Lisa Wentz
Director: Cilly Drexler

Three brothers long to free themselves from their father’s tyranny. While one of them wishes to inherit the barren farm, the others are in a gold rush. The struggle for power and love begins when Agnes – the old man’s new, young bride – enters the yard.
With VERLANGEN (German for desire), Lisa Wentz tells Eugene O’Neill’s DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS from a radical, feminine perspective.

The premiere took place on September 14, 2024 at Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck.
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LIEBES ARSCHLOCH (orig.: “Cher connard”) by Virginie Despentes
Stage adoptation: Victoria Weich
Direction, set design, costume: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
at Theater Münster

The 76th edition of PRIX ITALIA will take place in Turin from October 1-4, 2024 under the title “Loud and Clear”.
The competition features the production “EXZESS – A Techno Opera” by Noam Brusilovsky and Tobias Purfürst (category: Radio & Podcast Music).

EXZESS: A techno-opera
Libretto: Noam Brusilovsky
Composition: Tobias Purfürst
Production: rbb

Jessica and Brian, a tourist couple, visit Berlin’s most famous techno club. They are happy to have made it inside this huge industrial hall shrouded in legend. Their plan: dance, take drugs, indulge in the sound. A few hours later, Jessica is found by the club staff, collapsing on the floor. The diagnosis: intoxication with high doses of ecstasy. She is dead within a few hours.
The radiophonic techno opera EXZESS tells the story of dying in a club. In an uninterrupted techno set, the protagonist Jessica (Susanna Hurrell) sings her dying aria. The tragedy is that Jessica is fully aware that her organs are gradually failing and that time cannot be turned back. And as in classical opera, dying becomes spectacular in this technoid epic.

Two new performances by the critically acclaimed New York duo Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss can be seen at this year’s edition of Noorderzon Festival:

24 – 29 August, 2024 – WHILE YOU WERE PARTYING

A heady mix of vulnerable positions and hammer blows, a fresh and funny, uncompromising theatrical world that digs deep into the ugly side of us to reveal the humanity behind it.

27 – 29 August, 2024 – OPEN MIC NIGHT

A eulogy to an imaginary DIY hangout where crossing boundaries is the norm and no one cleans the toilets. With cheap beer!

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VACA (Cow) by Guillermo Calderón
Directed by: Guillermo Calderón

Guillermo Calderón is one of Chile’s most prominent playwrights. In his play VACA (“Cow”), three realities collide: a half-broken theater stage with a socially irrelevant program, a cheaply equipped TV-studio with radicalizing talk shows and a workshop of bicycle suppliers struggling for their own existence. And the whole thing revolves around a sick cow that suddenly gives too much milk!

The world premiere will take place on August 25 at 4 p.m. as part of the Kunstfest Weimar.
On August 26, following the performance (8 p.m.), Thomas Oberender, Chairman of the Goethe Medal Commission, will talk to Guillermo Calderón and Carmen Romero Quero, “Teatro a Mil” Foundation.
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Bitter Fields – Eine Recherche-Revue
by & with les dramaturx

les dramaturx ask themselves whether there really is a connection between the rise of the political right and climate change, and come to the bitter realization that they themselves are much more involved than they would like.

Guest performances on June 21 & June 22, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 70 min
Hochzeitssaal @ sophiensæle Berlin
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spinne
a monologue by Maja Zade
Director: Maja Zade

spinne (spider) is a monologue about the difficulty of talking to each other despite different political views and  lifestyles.

The premiere will take place on June 20, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Schaubühne Berlin.
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