Premiere on 6.4.2024
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Tue, 19.03. 19:30
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Die Insel Sertralin
Foyer 1
By William Shakespeare
German translation Sven-Eric Bechtolf & Wolfgang Wiens
Director: Pia Richter

We live in a time where romantic love as a universal longing may still fill the cinemas but is often met with cynicism in real life. So what is it about Shakespeare’s most famous lovers that continues to enthral us? In all their radical self-abandonment, are Romeo and Juliet a progressive alternative concept for today?

9.4., 19:30, Große Bühne
with english surtitles
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Director: Nuran David Calis

A long time ago, Güllen was a wealthy city. Now it is looking into the abyss of financial ruin. Sell-out and seizure are threatening. In this fatal situation, the residents are have nothing to hope for – except for the visit of an old lady, multi-millionaire Claire Zachanassian. Perhaps she can revive the ruined city of Güllen with an endowment?

20.3. & 19.4., 19:30, Große Bühne
with english surtitles
Breaking the Spell is a pilot step of the artistic research project that reflected practices of thinking-with and being-with in performing arts and researched spells as political and artistic practice.

The podcast is the invitation to join some of the Breaking the Spell exchanges. All four episodes, conceived by Zuzanna Berendt, Marta Keil and Anna Majewska, were created in collaboration with artists, artworkers and thinkers participating in the Breaking the Spell and with representatives of the communities in some of the localities where the project took place.
Based on Luis Buñuel
Director: Johan Simons
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Ensemble of Schauspiel Leipzig & Schauspielhaus Bochum

You should always leave on a high point, they say. After an exquisite meal, a little piano music with their coffee and some animated conversation, such a moment would have come. But the illustrious dinner party who have gathered at Mr and Mrs Nobile’s house don’t seem to want to leave. Even though everyone is starting to flag and decorum demands it. Something prevents the guests from leaving. Time passes. An entire night. And still, no one is capable of leaving the salon. The door is wide open. No external obstacle that prevents the involuntary fellowship from leaving can be identified. Unwillingly, they all stay put and conventions, reason and morals threaten to erode…

27.3. & 28.4., 19:30, Große Bühne
with english surtitles
Musical by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb
Director: Hubert Wild

“Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome” – every night, the Kit Kat Club’s Emcee extends this cosmopolitan greeting to its audience. Clifford Bradshaw is among the throng of guests who immerse themselves in the nightlife, in the world of cabaret and drag shows, in the multitude of life plans, the promise of an alternative lifestyle – an ecstatic exploration of freedom.

13.4., 19:30, Große Bühne
14.4., 16:00, Große Bühne

with english surtitles

by Bertolt Brecht
Director: Nuran David Calis

Chicago after the stock market crash: One crisis is followed by the next, and where can you make easy savings during an inflation? On vegetables. Even the ever-popular cauliflower is left on the shelves. Chicago’s greengrocers are desperate. Only yesterday they were well-known and confident as the world’s leading cauliflower grocers, today they have gone bankrupt. One man’s meat is another man’s poison, and Chicago’s crime boss Arturo Ui smells an opportunity.

14.3., 28.3. & 18.4., 19:30, Große Bühne
with english surtitles



Some productions of Schauspiel Leipzig are made accessible to an international audience by means of English surtitles. Performance dates featuring surtitles are marked in the monthly programme brochure.