Prima Facie

by Suzie Miller
Today: Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock

Shows with English Surtitles

Please indicate at the box office whether you would like a seat with surtitles when purchasing a ticket. You can also buy your ticket online. For the best view, we recommend the seats in the stalls from row 10 to row 16, especially in the middle. The seats in the middle section of the balcony and all rows in the tier are also recommended.

16 Nov

Saturday

Sat 16 Nov

Residenztheater, 19.30–21.50 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | 7 pm Introduction

Maria Stuart

by Friedrich Schiller
Abo 63
Prices I
25 bis 69 €

Maria Stuart, the deposed queen of Scotland, seeks asylum in England but soon finds herself imprisoned in a fortress as her aunt, the English queen Elisabeth Tudor, begins to investigate her. When she was seventeen, Maria was allegedly involved in the murder of her husband – that is the official charge, but there are also rumours of a plot to seize the crown right now. Schiller portrays neither of his female protagonists in a particularly flattering light: Maria is an impulsive seductress, Elisabeth is a jealous and indecisive monarch.

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19 Nov

Tuesday

Tue 19 Nov

Residenztheater, 19.30–21.00 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES

Sternstunden der Menschheit (Decisive moments in history)

after Stefan Zweig in a version by Thom Luz
Abo 21
Prices G
17 bis 57 €

In his historical miniatures, Stefan Zweig brings together brilliant achievements in European history that tell of unbreakable vitality as well as human weaknesses. In Thom Luz' poetic and musical production, they become archive material that is explored, sung about, brought to life in brief moments and also set in relation to Stefan Zweig's own biography and his journey into exile in Brazil.

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22 Nov

Friday

Fri 22 Nov

Residenztheater, 19.30–22.00 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES

Andersens Erzählungen (Andersen’s stories)

A piece of music theatre by Jherek Bischoff, Jan Dvořák and Philipp Stölzl
German Premiere
Abo 54
Prices I
25 bis 69 €

One stormy night in 1836, Hans Christian Andersen arrives uninvited at the home of his childhood friend Edvard Collin, who is to marry his fiancée Henriette the next day. Andersen has travelled through the wind and the rain to once again confess his love for Edvard. The family provide a frosty reception and the groom himself is out celebrating his last night as a bachelor. Only Henriette feels attracted to the unconventional charm of their guest, who lives in a fantasy world continually surrounded by characters from his own fairy tales. He magically transforms a sober room into a sparkling underwater landscape and castles of otherworldly beauty. And he starts telling his friend’s fiancée the fairy tale of The Little Mermaid: burning with love for a Prince, she wishes to become human and is willing to sacrifice her voice and her home to do so – risking her life.

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24 Nov

Sunday

Sun 24 Nov

Residenztheater, 16.00–18.55 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | 15.30 Introduction, with childcare. Only with registration at tickets@residenztheater.de

Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

by William Shakespeare
Abo 82
Prices I
25 bis 69 €

The wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta is just around the corner. But first Theseus has to help his friend Egeus. His daughter Hermia has fallen in love with the wrong man, Lysander. In order to change Hermia's mind, an effective threat is set up. The lovers have only one choice: to flee into the darkness of a dreamy June night. And here, in the pale glow of the wild setting, reality and reason are transformed into sexual desire and animal lust. «A Midsummer Night's Dream» is not only William Shakespeare's best-known comedy, but also perhaps his most abysmal. Stephan Kimmig stages the creatures from Shakespeare's famous fairy world as real-life eccentrics. Weird, unconventional and dazzling, they radically question what is considered normal.

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Sun 24 Nov

Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30–21.30 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | With childcare. Registration at tickets@residenztheater.de

Die Wildente (The wild duck)

by Henrik Ibsen
Prices H
21 bis 64 €

After many years, Gregers returns to his home country. His father, a successful entrepreneur, offers him the opportunity to join the company management, from which he has to retire for health reasons. Gregers refuses and at the same time learns that his father is secretly financially supporting the family of his old friend Hjalmar Ekdal, who lives in the most modest of circumstances, and becomes suspicious. Why is the capitalist suddenly showing himself to be a philanthropist? In his tragedy, Henrik Ibsen shows how the capitalist system has a direct impact on the private sphere and undermines social cohesion. The Norwegian Johannes Holmen Dahl, one of the most sought-after directors in Scandinavia, is now staging his German debut with a major work by his famous compatriot.

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29 Nov

Friday

Fri 29 Nov

Residenztheater, 19.30–20.50 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | Artist talk afterwards

Anne-Marie die Schönheit (Anne-Marie the beauty)

by Yasmina Reza
Abo 51
Prices E
13 bis 48 €

The most frequently performed contemporary international playwright Yazmina Reza, acclaimed for her plays’ witty dialogue, wrote «Anne-Marie the Beauty» as a full-length monologue for her favourite actor André Marcon. This elogy for the art of acting centres on an ageing actress who has spent her entire life in the theatre playing small and minor roles and has never been able to progress beyond this obscure existence.

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