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?
Dates with english surtitles:
31.10. / 18:00 / Große Bühne
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?
Dates with english surtitles:
31.10. / 18:00 / Große Bühne
Ntando Cele (Bern) / Artists in Residence
Leizpig premiere on 10 October / 20:00 / Residenz (Spinnerei)
Further dates: 11.10. + 12.10. / 20:00 each
‘Wasted Land’ humorously imagines an apocalyptic scenario at the end of all catastrophes and all woke discourses. Ntando Cele confronts the human tragedies of the fast fashion industry with Western feel-good ecology. What if the sustainable dream of the one becomes the disaster of the other ...? A spirited, musical plea for a decolonial ecology.
Performance in English!
Photo by Claudia Ndebele
Leizpig premiere on 10 October / 20:00 / Residenz (Spinnerei)
Further dates: 11.10. + 12.10. / 20:00 each
‘Wasted Land’ humorously imagines an apocalyptic scenario at the end of all catastrophes and all woke discourses. Ntando Cele confronts the human tragedies of the fast fashion industry with Western feel-good ecology. What if the sustainable dream of the one becomes the disaster of the other ...? A spirited, musical plea for a decolonial ecology.
Performance in English!
Photo by Claudia Ndebele
by Georg Büchner
Director: Enrico Lübbe
“On and on. On and on.” Life is a roundabout, constantly spinning. A person approaches here, words drift by there, lights, voices. For Woyzeck, life’s spinning only ever passes him by. “I think if we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help with the thunder”, he says.
Dates with English surtitles:
24.10., 30.11., 19:30, Große Bühne
Director: Enrico Lübbe
“On and on. On and on.” Life is a roundabout, constantly spinning. A person approaches here, words drift by there, lights, voices. For Woyzeck, life’s spinning only ever passes him by. “I think if we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help with the thunder”, he says.
Dates with English surtitles:
24.10., 30.11., 19:30, Große Bühne
by Joseph Kesselring
Director: Tina Lanik
“Arsenic and Old Lace” was premiered in 1942 and may be the most amicable, famous and dark among all famous dark theatre comedies. Nothing and nobody is ‘normal’ here. Abby and Martha are the least normal of them all; they do the darkest things with the greatest air of normality and helpful peace of mind. Morality is a malleable term in the two aunts’ house, but how they all uphold it as a matter of course is very, very funny.
Dates with English surtitles:
29.11., 19:30, Große Bühne
Director: Tina Lanik
“Arsenic and Old Lace” was premiered in 1942 and may be the most amicable, famous and dark among all famous dark theatre comedies. Nothing and nobody is ‘normal’ here. Abby and Martha are the least normal of them all; they do the darkest things with the greatest air of normality and helpful peace of mind. Morality is a malleable term in the two aunts’ house, but how they all uphold it as a matter of course is very, very funny.
Dates with English surtitles:
29.11., 19:30, Große Bühne
by William Shakespeare
These are uncertain times. No one knows what tomorrow may bring. Who will rule, who will be overthrown? Who is still playing the game of power and who has already lost – lost the game, lost power and lost their life? Richard, Duke of Gloucester, wants to be more than just a pawn in this game. He wants to be the key player. The one who beats them all.
Dates with english surtitles:
09.10., 20.10., 17.11., 19:30, Große Bühne
These are uncertain times. No one knows what tomorrow may bring. Who will rule, who will be overthrown? Who is still playing the game of power and who has already lost – lost the game, lost power and lost their life? Richard, Duke of Gloucester, wants to be more than just a pawn in this game. He wants to be the key player. The one who beats them all.
Dates with english surtitles:
09.10., 20.10., 17.11., 19:30, Große Bühne
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.
Dates with english surtitles:
19.10. 19:30, Große Bühne
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.
Dates with english surtitles:
19.10. 19:30, Große Bühne
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 in our programme.