Premieres & revivals 24/25

Premiers Große Bühne

Nosferatu

OPEN-AIR-THEATER 2024
Im GRASSI-Innenhof
based on the silent film by F. W. Murnau
and the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker, in a version by Katharina Ramser
Director: Katharina Ramser
Premiere on 15.08.2024
Grassi-Museum

Richard III

by William Shakespeare
German translation by Thomas Brasch
Leipzig version by Marion Tiedtke
Director: Enrico Lübbe
Premiere on 20.09.2024
Große Bühne

Andersens Märchen (UA)

by Stephan Beer and Georg Burger
based on motifs by Hans Christian Andersen
Director: Stephan Beer
Premiere on 03.11.2024
Große Bühne

Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen (Arsenic and Old Lace)

by Joseph Kesselring
Director: Tina Lanik
Premiere on 23.11.2024
Große Bühne

Der zerbrochne Krug (The Broken Jug)

by Heinrich von Kleist
Director: Elsa-Sophie Jach
Premiere on 31.01.2025
Große Bühne

Revivals Große Bühne

Cabaret

Musical by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb
Book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play “I am a Camera” by John van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood
Director: Hubert Wild
Revival on 01.09.2024
Große Bühne

Das Gespenst von Canterville (The Canterville Ghost)

Based on the fairy-tale story by Oscar Wilde
Adapted for the stage by Markus Bothe
Director: Markus Bothe
Revival on 12.10.2024
Große Bühne

Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone)

by Wilhelm Hauff
Director: Enrico Lübbe
Revival in planning
Große Bühne

Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui)

by Bertolt Brecht
Director: Nuran David Calis
Revival on 29.08.2024
Große Bühne

Der Besuch der alten Dame

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Director: Nuran David Calis
Revival on 05. Oktober 2024
Große Bühne

Der Gott des Gemetzels (God of Carnage)

by Yasmina Reza
Director: Enrico Lübbe
Revival on 15.02.2025
Große Bühne

Medea

By Euripides
Director: Markus Bothe
Revival on 08.01.2025
Große Bühne

Meister und Margarita (The Master and Margarita)

Based on the novel by Michail Bulgakov
From the Russian by Alexander Nitzberg
Arranged for the stage by Claudia Bauer and Ensemble
Director: Claudia Bauer
Revival on 19.01.2025
Große Bühne

Romeo und Julia

By William Shakespeare
German translation Sven-Eric Bechtolf & Wolfgang Wiens
Director: Pia Richter
Revival on 25.09.2024
Große Bühne

Woyzeck

by Georg Büchner
Director: Enrico Lübbe
Revival on 01.10.2024
Große Bühne

Premiers Diskothek

Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig

Von Wunden und Wundern (UA)

by Sarah Kilter
Director: Marco Damghani
Premiere on 14.9.2024
Diskothek

Compania Sincara plays "(K)Ein Sommernachtstraum"

freely adapted from William Shakespeare
A production by Compania Sincara
Director: Rico Dietzmeyer
Premiere on 24.10.2024
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig

Altbau in zentraler Lage (UA)

Eine Schaueroper
by Raphaela Bardutzky
Artistic collaboration: Athena Lange

Director: Salome Schneebeli
Premiere on 22.11.2024
Diskothek

Aufzeichnungen aus einem weißen Zimmer  (UA)

by Anna Behringer
Director: Thirza Bruncken
Premiere on 30.1.2025
Diskothek

Revivals Diskothek

America

by Giorgio Ferretti
Director: Salome Schneebeli
Revival on 28.08.2024
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig

Anouk & Adofa (UA)

Marco Damghani
Revival in planning
Diskothek

Compania Sincara plays Hamlet

Loosely based on William Shakespeare
Director: Rico Dietzmeyer
Revival on 29.11.2024
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig

Die Bridgetower Sonate

By Amanda Wilkin
German translation by Aidan Riebensahm
Director: Adewale Teodros Adebisi
Revival on 25.08.2024
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig

Goldie (UA)

Playwriter and director: Emre Akal
Revival in planning
Diskothek

Heißes Wasser für alle

Produktion des Theaterjugendclub „Sorry, eh!“
by Gesine Danckwart (with some scenes from "Girlsnightout")
Director: Yves Hinrichs
Revival on 19.10.2024
Diskothek

Letzte Station Torgau. Eine kalte Umarmung (UA)

Documentary Theatre Project by dura & kroesinger
Director: Regine Dura & Hans-Werner Kroesinger
Revival on 30.10.2024
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig

Niederwald

By Wolfram Höll
Director: Elsa-Sophie Jach
Revival on 11.10.2024
Diskothek

Nullerjahre

Jugend in blühenden Landschaften
By Hendrik Bolz
Studio Production 2024
Stage version by Marco Damghani
Revival on 31.08.2024
Diskothek

White Passing (UA)

by Sarah Kilter
Director: Thirza Bruncken
Revival on 17.08.2024
Diskothek

zwei herren von real madrid

by Leo Meier
Director: Albrecht Schroeder
Revival on 26.11.2024
Diskothek

Premiers Residenz in der Spinnerei

Wasted Land

Ntando Cele (Bern) / Artists in Residence
Leipzig-Premiere 10.10.2024
Residenz

­BBF_Production lädt ein

#BBF_Production (Leipzig)
From 18.10.2024
Residenz

Soft War

Martina Hefter & Patrice Lipeb (Leipzig) / Artists in Residence
Premiere on 28.11.2024
Residenz

InterEuroVision

BOYS* IN SYNC (Frankfurt / Kopenhagen / Oslo) / Artists in Residence
Premiere on 28.1.2025
Residenz

Bullshit

She She Pop (Berlin)
Leipzig-Premiere on 5.3.2025
Residenz

Four Walls and a Roof

Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué (Beirut/Berlin)
Leipzig-Premiere on 30.4.2025
Residenz

Drei Mal links ist rechts

Julian Hetzel (Utrecht) / Artists in Residence
Leipzig-Premiere on 22.5.2025
Residenz

KATAPULT

Performance Plattform Leipzig
KATAPULT Festival in June 2025
Residenz

Premieres Foyer 1

Ophelias Tränen

Ein Abend über und unter Wasser für alle süßen Mäuse von und mit Paula Winteler
Premiere on 11.09.2024
Foyer 1

Revivals Foyer 1

Knöpfe (UA)

based on the radio play by Ilse Aichinger
Director: Emily Huber
Revival on 21.08.2024
Foyer 1

„Spieglein, Spieglein, halt's Maul, wir müssen nachdenken“

with texts of Ada Berger and Liv Strömquist
Translation: Ellen Neuser and Leonard Merkes
Artistic direction: Ellen Neuser
Revival on 17.08.2024
Foyer 1

Premiers Außer Haus

PAY ATTENTION! 2024

Eine urbane Langzeitbespielung
Autumn 2024
Stadtraum

ag(o)ra

Schauspiel Leipzig auf dem Gelände des agra Messepark Leipzig
April – October 2025
agra Messepark Leipzig

ClubFusion 2025

Festival of the theatre clubs of Schauspiel Leipzig, TDJW and Junge Oper Leipzig
16.– 25.5.2025
Stadtraum