14.02.2025: Premiere DER TAG DER BÄREN by Ana Trpenoska & les dramaturx at Schauspielhaus Hamburg

THE DAY OF THE BEARS (dt. DER TAG DER BÄREN)
A research trip by Ana Trpenoska
In the company of les dramaturx

Winter of 2023: together with Macedonian author Ana Trpenoska, les dramaturx travel to a national park in North Macedonia to visit one of the largest free-living bear populations in Europe. Once there, several surprises await them…

The world premiere will take place on February 14, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the Schauspielhaus Hamburg/ MalerSaal.
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21.01.2025: Premiere OEDIPUS by Ella Hickson at Old Vic London

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.

8.02.2025: German premiere for ANNA by Ella Hickson at Theater Neubrandenburg

ANNA by Ella Hickson
Concept by Ella Hickson, Max Ringham & Ben Ringham
German translation: Lisa Wegener
Director: Walter Meierjohann

East Berlin, 1968: a party in Anna and Hans’ apartment.
Hans has been promoted and guests come over to toast his success. Hans’ new superior also turns up, and with him – lies about Anna’s veiled past…
Written by playwright Ella Hickson and developed in collaboration with sound designers Ben and Max Ringham, ANNA unfolds with the suspense of a spy thriller. The audience follows the play via headphones and from the perspective of the main character.

The German premiere will take place on February 8, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Theater Neubrandenburg.
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30.01.2025: Premiere AZUR by Lisa Wentz at Theater in der Josefstadt

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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Pola Kardum (GER)

born in Berlin, worked from 2009 to 2014 as a fashion designer for various film productions, holding different positions within the costume department. Since 2011, she has been working as a freelance costume designer for film, theatre, and opera productions.

Internationally, she has collaborated with director David Marton at the Opéra National de Lyon, La Monnaie in Brussels, and Theater an der Wien on productions such as Orfeo ed Euridice, La damnation de Faust, Don Giovanni, Dido and Aeneas, Pique Dame, Capriccio, and Der Freischütz. In Germany, her theatre work has taken her to venues including HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Prinzregententheater, and the Münchner Kammerspiele, with projects such as La Sonnambula and On the Road (directed by David Marton), Die Kränkungen der Menschheit and 1000 Serpentinen Angst (directed by Anta Helene Recke), as well as Chorus never dies by Marta Gornicka and We call wonder by Christiane Huber.

She also designed costumes for the German feature films Ich will mich nicht künstlich aufregen and Weitermachen Sanssouci by Max Linz, both of which premiered at the Berlinale. The film Golden Twenties by Sophie Kluge was screened at the Munich Film Festival. Her most recent feature film, Die Theorie von Allem (The Theory of Everything), directed by Timm Kröger, premiered in competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.

Her recent projects include the opera production Die Melancholie des Widerstands (The Melancholy of Resistance) at the Staatsoper Berlin (2024, directed by David Marton), the international film production No Good Men (2024–2025, directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat), as well as the theatre productions Monster (2025–2026, Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by Anta Recke, Maxi Lehmann and Anna Fröhlicher) and Kassandra (2025–2026, Maxim Gorki Theater, directed by Marta Gornicka).