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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.

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

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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

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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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11.12.2024: Kurt-Hübner Directing Prize for Ran Chai Bar-zvi

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Ran Chai Bar-zvi receives the Kurt Hübner Directing Prize for his production of “Blutbuch”, based on the novel by Kim de l’Horizon, at the Staatstheater Hannover. The decision was made by Almut Wagner, head dramaturge at the Residenztheater and sole juror for the Kurt Hübner Directing Prize. “Ran Chai Bar-zvi always handles even large, existential material with lightness and an incredible instinct for entertainment, […] yet he never runs the risk of trivializing the serious core of the plays,” emphasizes Almut Wagner – as in ‘Blutbuch’, the work for which Ran Chai Bar-zvi receives the prize.

The award has been presented to young directors by the German Academy of Performing Arts since 1991 as part of the Eysoldt Prize ceremony in Bensheim. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros.

BLUTBUCH by Kim de l’Horizon
stage adaptation by Ran Chai Bar-zvi and Michael Letmathe
Premiere was in December 2023 at the Staatstheater Hannover.
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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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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