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THE BROKEN JUG (German: DER ZERBROCHNE KRUG)
by Heinrich von Kleist
Director: Yana Eva Thönnes

The director reinterprets Kleist’s comedy, which should really be a tragedy. It deals with sexual assault, abuse of power and a young woman who doesn’t dare to speak up. Yana Eva Thönnes breaks Eve’s silence, moves the action from the courtroom to Marthe’s house and has Eve invite her friends to a pyjama party.

The premiere takes place on October 25, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at Theater Freiburg.

Kiss Kiss Wolf ⁽ ¨̮⁾˚‧♡

(2024, 17″)

In the short film by lynn t musiol, the darkrooms of the Filmfabrik Wolfen become a film set for lesbian eroticism; the socialist factory becomes a safe space and hotspot for queer-lesbian love.

WO IST WALD?

Performance in Laut- und Gebärdensprache
Concept: makemake produktionen
Stage Design: Mirjam Stängel

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.

HOLSTEIN MILCHKÜHE by Satoko Ichihara

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

RICHTERSKALA 7,8

by und with Elif Bilici and Özge Dayan-Mair
Directed by Martina Gredler

Produced by diverCITYLAB in cooperation with MEDEA PRODUCTION – Verein für transdisziplinäre Kunst
Coproduced by Theater am Werk

Additional performance dates: : October, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28 and 29, 2025 | 7:30 p.m.

Tickets

VOLKSVERNICHTUNG ODER MEINE LEBER IST SINNLOS
A Radical Comedy by Werner Schwab

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

MACBETH by William Shakespeare

Text adaptation and direction: Marius von Mayenburg

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.

BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA

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).

WOZZECK

Opera in three acts (15 scenes) by Alban Berg
Based on a Drama Fragment by Georg Büchner

Musical Director: Srba Dinić
Director: Franziska Angerer
Stage Design: Mirjam Stängl

DER ZERBROCHNE KRUG
A mystery soap opera based on Heinrich von Kleist

Director: Lola Fuchs

With her biting, absurd comedy DER DÄMON IN DIR MUSS TRAUER TRAGEN at Theater Dortmund, Lola Fuchs was invited to join radikal jung in Munich. Now she has adapted and staged the classic play, turning the courtroom comedy into a biting media satire. What begins as a minor trial becomes a mirror of social abysses – somewhere between courtroom drama, Instagram reality and suppressed provincial madness.

The premiere will take place on 11 October 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the Schauspielhaus of the Theater Dortmund.