Nicola Mastroberardino

Geboren 1978 in Zürich, absolvierte Nicola Mastroberardino sein Schauspielstudium an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich. Seine Engagements führten ihn von 2005 bis 2010 an das Schauspiel Essen, von 2010 bis 2015 an das Schauspielhaus Bochum und von 2015 bis 2019 an das Theater Basel. 2019 folgte er Andreas Beck ans Residenztheater. 2008 erhielt er den Aalto Bühnenpreis für junge Künstler, 2009 den Förderpreis der Akademie der Künste in der Sektion Darstellende Kunst sowie 2013 den Bochumer Theaterpreis in der Sparte «Arrivierter Künstler». Er arbeitete u.a. mit den Regisseur*innen David Bösch, Anselm Weber, Sebastian Nübling, Lisa Nielebock, Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer, Julia Hölscher und Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson. 2018 wurde die Schweizer TV-Serie «Seitentriebe» mit ihm in der Hauptrolle mit dem European Script Award ausgezeichnet. 

Performing in

A caretaker is murdered with no reason or motive. Alienated from himself and life in general by a working day that is always the same, a bank clerk seizes an axe and commits murder. This action lacking any obvious cause shocks state prosecutor Martin, who is in charge of the case. In the murder and his crime he can see a reflection of his own imprisonment in a bourgeois existence dominated by duty, law and order. The prosecutor is immediately struck by an existential fear that drives him to escape into the fairy tale world of a mysterious alter ego: the world of Count Öderland.

Graf Öderland (Count Öderland)

Lola Montez was one of the most dazzling female figures in the history of Bavaria and the city of Munich. When Lola – who was actually born Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert – arrived in Munich in 1846, the immigration police recorded her as: «artist, dancer from Sevilla, Spain, 24 years old, Catholic, no passport.» A short time later she had become the lover of the Bavarian King Ludwig I. However, it would be too simple to reduce this fascinating woman to the scandals that were often no more than allegations against her: because in both her thinking and her actions she was centuries ahead of her time.

 

Lola M.

Medea is the most startling character in the history of literature. Like no other female figure, she leaves an unprecedented trail of blood behind her: betraying her father, murdering her brother, murdering the King of Iolcus – and that is not enough.

Medea
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 04 Jun
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 24 Jun

The author and musician PeterLicht frees this moral portrait that we now find barely legible from the socio-political reality of French absolutism and sets his sights on the present in his new version «Tartuffe or the Philosopher’s Swine». Here he employs the same characters as the original, whose literary descendants are nevertheless given considerable licence: in secular times one abhors a vacuum and so the «socially interconnected sculpture» hopes for and fears the appearance of Tartuffe, who serves to supply their wishes and as a surface onto which they may project themselves.

Tartuffe oder Das Schwein der Weisen (Tartuffe or the philosopher's swine)
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 05 Jun

In her new work, the director Claudia Bauer, who has been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen four times and is renowned for her work with fast and furious acting ensembles, now tackles someone who typifies Munich, the brilliant comedian Karl Valentin. In her usual, opulent stage language she will devise a homage to the Bavarian whose anarchic approach to language led the critic Alfred Kerr to invent the term «Wortzerklauberer», someone who steals words and tears them to pieces.

Valentiniade. Sportliches Singspiel mit allen Mitteln (VALENTINIADE. SPORTING SINGSPIEL WITH NO HOLDS BARRED)
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Tue 13 Jun

Chekhov’s texts, first and foremost his youthful fragment «Platonov», form the starting point for a new evening of musical theatre by resident director Thom Luz. He has borrowed the title from a Russian film version of «Platonov» from 1977 and assembles a society that attempts to discern the melody of the joys and horrors of the future from the songs of a long-forgotten time.

Warten auf Platonow (Waiting for Platonow)
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 02 Jun

Ensemble