BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA is a plea for sharing unheard stories and an invitation to bear witness to the complex story of a life that cannot choose a simple side.
The world premiere will take place on April 5, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. at Studio Я / Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.
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May Ayim is the starting point of this evening, an evening of remembrance: French playwright Penda Diouf writes about the Afro-German poet who moved and saved so many lives, but ended her own at an early age. Diouf writes about how Black history is lived and remembered in Germany and about how Black sisterhood connects across generations.
A personal and communal evening about a Black reality of life in Germany.
The world premiere takes place on April 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Theater Münster statt.
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Daniel and Sibylle, married, two children, both have a career, both have settled into their upper middle class life without love and full of reproaches and resentment against each other. The picture-book façade seems to crumble when Daniel comes home late again and receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend Franziska. As Franziska appears at the door, the trio beginns a bitter game of power, truth and betrayal, at the end of which there are no winners.
The German premiere takes place on March 12, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Schaubühne Berlin.
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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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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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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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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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When a burned Quran is found on a film set, the shoot takes a dark turn and the crew are thrown into turmoil. Caught in the crossfire, an intern, Elif, is drawn into a dangerous game of secrets, accusations and lies…
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Double premiere on February 15, 2025 at Burgtheatre Vienna (Akademietheater)
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ELLEN BABIĆ
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Between intimacy and social appropriation: together with musicians Peter Florian Berndt (lute, electronics) and Dominik Tremel (harpsichord, electronics), Anke Retzlaff (viola da gamba, performance) embarks on a radically sensual journey with texts by Kathrin Liess and testimonials from women in childbirth to explore one of the most primal themes: birth. On the border between club night and performance, baroque and electronics, text and original sound, pregnant bodies become a dance floor for society.
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. & February 16, 2025 at 9:00 p.m.
In SchwuZ Queer Club, Rollbergstraße 26,12053 Berlin