The Vienna premieres will take place at DSCHUNGEL WIEN on October 22, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Further performance dates and tickets can be found here.
Belle Santos is one of the most exciting costume designers and performance artists. She has worked with directors such as Ran Chai Bar-Zvi, Leonie Böhm and Lucia Bihler. This is her first collaboration with Japanese author and director Satoko Ichihara.
The Swiss premiere took place on 18 October 2025 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Further performance dates:
20., 28. und 30. Oktober
2., 6., 12., 14., 18., 21. und 28. November
1. und 5. Dezember
Additional performance dates: : October, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28 and 29, 2025 | 7:30 p.m.
Directed by Fritzi Wartenberg
After her phenomenal success with ELISABETH!, Fritzi Wartenburg now stages Schwab’s radical comedy at the Burgtheater.
‘Frenetic applause for this model example of a Schwab production.’ – DER STANDARD
‘In her production, Fritzi Wartenberg has brought out something else that was often overlooked in the past: the terrible plight of all these despicable characters. And that is art.’ – Die Presse
The premiere took place on October, 18 2025 at the Akademietheater.
Additional performance dates:
21./30. Oktober 2025
03./10. November 2025
In his newly dramatised version of Shakespeare’s play, director and playwright Marius von Mayenburg creates an apocalyptic and dystopian world centred around the serial killer Macbeth for the Norwegian stage.
The premiere will take place on October 17, 2025 at 6 p.m. at the Nationtheatret (Hovedscenen) in Oslo.
by and with Yousef Sweid
Director + Co-Author: Isabella Sedlak
Produced by Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid dives into the chaos of identity, truth, and family life in Between The River And The Sea. Raised as a Christian-Arab kid in Haifa, now raising two Jewish-Arab kids in Berlin, he unpacks his in-between-ness – where contradictions clash and slogans fail. With biting humour and raw honesty, Sweid weaves personal stories, political reflection, and absurd everyday moments into a sharp, unflinching solo performance.
BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA will be shown as part of steirischer herbst ’25 on October 12, 2025 in Graz (Dom im Berg, Schloßbergplatz).
What is the role of art in an age of technological change? How does artificial intelligence change the way we create and understand stories? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Ayad Akhtar and acclaimed German author Daniel Kehlmann discuss the intersection of art, technology and human experience.
Also, in his latest play MCNEAL (European premiere on March 1, 2025 at the Burgtheater Vienna) Ayad Akhtar explores these questions and reflects on topics such as authenticity, power and morality. Read more about the production DER FALL MCNEAL here.
The conversation is held in English without German translation.
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The job center has a new assignment: with the help of an inheritance lottery, assets are expropriated and passed on to those in need, all in the name of an equal society! Here, in the overcrowded waiting room of such a job center, the long-term unemployed Maude meets Silke – and a surprising complicity begins.
With JEEPS, Nora Abdel-Maksoud addresses the topic of equal opportunities and social justice and uses humor to question a system which seemingly keeps on reproducing privileges and disadvantages.
The premiere takes place on February 26, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at Schauspiel Köln (Depot 2)
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Jacob McNeal is a successful, unscrupulous writer almost manically hoping to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His liver is failing, his son is threatening him with a public scandal and his fascination with artificial intelligence could shut down his career.
In his new play, Ayad Akhtar questions the machinations of the literary world and the influence of AI on his profession as a writer and reflects on the issues of greed, power and intellectual appropriation.
The European premiere will take place on March 1, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Burgtheater Vienna statt.
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In their feature-length debut, Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann dive into the merfolk subculture with performance artist and mermaid Una. Genre elements, fiction and documentary, self-care, political activism and self-chosen identities flow into one another.
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