ZEIT DER SCHILDKRÖTEN, DIE
A grotesque dream play – a dance of death for two illegal immigrants. Sami and Ali have fled to the south of Europe. For a starvation wages, they work in greenhouses. Soon, the two friends must realize that they will always be hunted and seen as an outcast: Annoying as…
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A dreamplay about four men in search of a new form of existence on the other side of the traditional role pattern.
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Throughout her life, Zelda Fitzgerald stood in the shadow of her famous husband, Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Her own literary talent was first given the public’s attention late in life. In this monologue, we see her one evening shortly before she burned to death at the mental sanatorium she was hospitalized…
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A playful variation on Deichsel’s “Frankenstein’s Curse”. The Frankenstein theme is converted into an independent horror picture – cruel and simultaneously comical.
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A harassed inner monologue and a hasty line of thoughts in a female terrorist’s mind the minutes before she makes her misdeed. The thoughts belongs to an individual, who feels destined to something higher; who again and again asks herself if her action is suicide or a heroic act, who’s…
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Open stage musical for young people. The fantastical adventures of two Australian teenagers.
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The play begins in front of a zoological garden. In a twisted language, Specht gives a (sur)real portrait of a society of fortune hunters who verbally sniff at each other in front of the cages to others who runs a vicious play of pecking ordering. In the play’s second part…
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ZOBRA is the Greek equivalent to ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ but comes with a somewhat harsher plot. It has also been filmed starring Anthony Quinn, and tells the story of the genuinely happy tramp Zobra who meets the shy and restrained Nikos. They become friends for life and as it…
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The play follows a family whose life falls apart when the father is attacked. The classmates bully the son because the father has taken the attack without making resistance. While the son and his friend, Kolya makes plans to avenge his father, the mother begins an intimate relationship with the…
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5 M / 1 set Kafka, Beckett and Ionesco have all inspired this playwright from Köln, Herman Moers stylistically. This play holds a strong romantic longing for beauty and warmth and invites the viewer to come up own opinions and idea for endings. Also, it offers a scenically stimulating form…
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Iseme has always been overshadowed by her famous sister, Antigone. She feels that her existence is unjustified, because she has never done anything special. Finally she begins to talk…
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The brothers, Albert and Wugen Züst works at firefighters at a theatre. Backed by the art, they doze off. One dream takes them to the skies, towards the bird mountain, where they can be exactly what they want to be. They’re boasters and perhaps even secret artists. In Urs Widmer’s…
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The casual laborer and daydreamer, Tony, faces a highly unusual accident: After having climbed up in a dumpster, hoping to find something good, a big box of books falls into his head. The content of the books takes residence in his brain, and he ends up in a psychiatric ward,…
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More and more often it happens that the (female) hermaphrodite, Frotiz wakes up and realizes that her gender has disappeared. Wova, her somewhat stupid brother, has anxious apocalyptic visions from his third eye that prevents him from leaving the apartment. They both live together with their grandmother who’s in a…
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Till and Bettina, two elderly actors, rehearse their old parts as they’ve been doing it every evening over the past 30 years. They’ve already begun as the door bell rings: In the door stands the young student, Sabine, who’s interested in a room that Bettina have announced that she wants…
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