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Schedule
18 May
Sun 18 May
Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet) - 18 May
Romeo and Juliet set the language of love against the war of their relatives, the language of the dagger. Will they manage to set an example against the irreconcilable enmity that prevails in Verona? In-house director Elsa-Sophie Jach re-stages the world's most famous love story and the dance on the volcano that sweeps its main characters away, with lots of music and hot hearts.
Sun 18 May
Der Schiffbruch der Fregatte Medusa (The shipwreck of the frigate Medusa) - 18 May
The French frigate «Medusa» is shipwrecked two days' voyage from its destination. For author and director Alexander Eisenach, the events that follow symbolise a society in which the values of communal coexistence have lost their validity.
19 May
Mon 19 May
Der wiedergefundene Freund - 19 May
Mon 19 May
Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - 19 May
In Stephan Kimmig's production, the boundaries between Shakespeare's fairy world and the harsh reality of the big city become blurred. Fuelled by Puck's magic, a summer night unfolds in which soon no one knows where love ends and obsession begins.
20 May
Tue 20 May
Sankt Falstaff (Saint Falstaff) - 20 May
Austrian playwright Ewald Palmetshofer translates Shakespeare's royal drama «King Henry IV» into the present day of eroding democracies with sophisticated language and defiant humour.
Tue 20 May
Heartship - 20 May
When Ann sees her for the first time, Sara is standing on the stage of the Heartship bar - as she does on the last Thursday of every month - and declaring war on the patriarchy with her furious stand-up performance. From that moment on, the rational ophthalmologist and single mum is fascinated by Sara's fearless manner. A connection develops between the two that goes beyond the conventions of romantic relationships or platonic friendships - a heartship.
21 May
Wed 21 May
Training for educators - 21 May
Twice a year we offer a training day for teachers. You want to get your students in the mood for the upcoming theater visit and are still looking for impulses for practical implementation? In the three-hour training course, we show you examples of how our plays can be taught in a simple and playful way.
Wed 21 May
Resi-Workshop - 21 May
Once a month, you have the opportunity to creatively explore a play from our program in the «Resi Workshop». In the two-hour workshop you will approach the respective production with text excerpts, playful exercises and improvisations.
Wed 21 May
Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet) - 21 May
Romeo and Juliet set the language of love against the war of their relatives, the language of the dagger. Will they manage to set an example against the irreconcilable enmity that prevails in Verona? In-house director Elsa-Sophie Jach re-stages the world's most famous love story and the dance on the volcano that sweeps its main characters away, with lots of music and hot hearts.
Wed 21 May
Life continues to be incredibly beautiful - 21 May
Mit Hilfe von John Cages Zufallsprinzip liest sich das Ensemble durch seine umfangreiche Korrespondenz. Ausschnitte aus Briefen, u.a. Liebesbriefe an Merce Cunningham, persönliche Anekdoten sowie Reflexionen seines Werks treffen auf szenische Elemente und leuchten in jeder Aufführung neue Facetten seines Lebens und Schaffens aus.
22 May
Thu 22 May
Werther - 22 May
In her adaptation, the director Elsa-Sophie Jach has seized on the idea Goethe abandoned and transfers Goethe’s love-sick alter ego to the stage. «WERTHER. A Theatrical Folly» supplements Goethe’s shimmering, astonishingly modern rush of emotion with texts by one of his contemporaries: Karoline von Günderrode.
Thu 22 May
Die Fliegen (The Flies) - 22 May
The «freedom to act» forms the core of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophical thinking. What this freedom means for the individual is exemplified in «The Flies» - Sartre's rewriting of Aeschylus' second part of the «Oresteia». Should Orest, who has returned home from exile, take revenge for the murder of his father Agamemnon? And if so, what price is he prepared to pay?
Thu 22 May
Eine Zierde für den Verein (A credit to the club) - 22 May
During the global economic crisis of the 1920s, a young woman tries out self-realization and yet ends up in a restrictive marriage, confronted with misogyny and male bonding as well as the rise of National Socialism. Elsa-Sophie Jach adapts Marieluise Fleisser's only novel for the stage.
23 May
Fri 23 May
Der wiedergefundene Freund - 23 May
Fri 23 May
Prima Facie - 23 May
Tessa Ensler is a successful lawyer whose supreme discipline is the defence of defendants in sexual assault cases. Then she herself is raped - by a colleague. She reports him and is now on the other side of the cross-examination - as the victim. With «Prima Facie», Suzie Miller gives a voice to millions of women who suffer violence worldwide.
Fri 23 May
Sohn einer Mutter. Mutter eines Sohns. (Son of a mother. Mother of a son.) - 23 May
Iranian playwright and director Pooyan Bagherzadeh paints a moving picture of a mother in Iran and her son in Germany. In their daily video calls, he not only tells of an exemplary mother-son relationship, but also of growing up in Iran, historical developments and the adversities of everyday life - and the great concern for each other.
24 May
Sat 24 May
Spielplanpräsentation Abonnent*innen - 24 May
Am 24. Mai um 11 Uhr lädt Staatsintendant Andreas Beck zur Spielplanpräsentation exklusiv für Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten und gibt einen Ausblick auf die Saison 2025/2026.
Sat 24 May
Blind - 24 May
Successful playwright Lot Vekemans hits the nerve of the times with her new play. With great sensitivity, she tells the story of a father and daughter, played by Manfred Zapatka and Juliane Köhler, who have seemingly irreconcilable attitudes to social and political issues, and asks how these conflicts can be overcome.
Sat 24 May
Salome - 24 May
Based on Oscar Wilde's famous one-act play, Polish director Ewelina Marciniak completely reinterprets the character of Salome. She is no longer a scandalised femme fatale, but a young woman who tries to free herself from the constraints of her surroundings by any means necessary.
Sat 24 May
Was ich vergessen habe (What I’ve forgotten) - 24 May
What happens with dementia and how can we deal with this phenomenon? Director Anna Karasińska and journalist Jürgen Berger explore the disease in a poetic evening of theatre that highlights the fragility of human existence and our basic assumptions of identity. Their search for clues leads them to a dementia village in Thailand, where care is provided in a completely different way to that in German care homes.
Sat 24 May
Und oder oder oder oder und und beziehungsweise und oder beziehungsweise oder und beziehungsweise einfach und - 24 May
«Yes - No», «Light - Dark», «There - Away», «Breakfast or not», «War or not» - author Nele Stuhler has collected lists of opposites that question the depths of everyday life as well as the very big world situation and put them into poem form. A poetic and highly comical concert of contradictions performed by three actors on an open stage.
25 May
Sun 25 May
Im Dickicht der Stadt (In the thicket of the city) - 25 May
In search of urban wilderness, we turn our attention to the unnoticed in-between spaces of our city. Together with scientists from LMU, we will explore the thicket with all our senses and make contact with its non-human actors. In the first part, HÖREN (LISTENING), sound artist Ludwig Berger takes us into a soundscape of singing animals and talking plants.
Sun 25 May
Moby Dick - 25 May
Ishmael signs on to the «Pequod», an old whaler. However, it soon becomes clear that the aim of the voyage is not just to exploit the world's oceans and their giant marine mammals, but Captain Ahab's personal vendetta. Melville's «Moby Dick» - brought to the stage by Stefan Pucher - is both an adventurous sailor's yarn and a reflection on the fatal art of seduction of a demagogue.
26 May
Mon 26 May
Buddenbrooks - 26 May
«And often the outward signs of ascent only become apparent once the decline has begun again.» In his 1901 novel, subtitled «The Decline of a Family», Thomas Mann uses precise characterisation and an ironic style to describe the incipient structural collapse of the grande bourgeoisie. Mann drew his inspiration for «Buddenbrooks» from the story of his own family in Lübeck and people of the city where he was living at the time: Munich. Mann shows the potential complexity of relations between North and South Germany with considerable humour in the relationship between Tony Buddenbrook and the Munich hop-trader Alois Permaneder.
27 May
Tue 27 May
Salome - 27 May
Based on Oscar Wilde's famous one-act play, Polish director Ewelina Marciniak completely reinterprets the character of Salome. She is no longer a scandalised femme fatale, but a young woman who tries to free herself from the constraints of her surroundings by any means necessary.
28 May
Wed 28 May
Erfolg (Success) - 28 May
With «Success», we journey into the inner workings of a society in which everything is measured in terms of personal career advantage, the demands of embittered contemporaries, hatred of one’s neighbours, anger at those with a different political opinion and one’s own lack of any sense of direction.
29 May
Thu 29 May
Sankt Falstaff (Saint Falstaff) - 29 May
Austrian playwright Ewald Palmetshofer translates Shakespeare's royal drama «King Henry IV» into the present day of eroding democracies with sophisticated language and defiant humour.
Thu 29 May
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (Käthchen of Heilbronn) - 29 May
No other play by Heinrich von Kleist inspires quite so many superlatives as «Käthchen of Heilbronn». It is not only the most successful, but also the most romantic, the most fairy tale-like and at the same time the most mysterious play that he wrote.
30 May
Fri 30 May
Sternstunden der Menschheit (Highlights of Humankind) - 30 May
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.
Fri 30 May
Pygmalion - 30 May
You are how you speak. Professor of Phonetics Higgins makes a bet with his friend Pickering that he can turn the energetic Eliza Doolittle, who sells flowers in the street to make ends meet and speaks the broadest dialect, into an upper-class lady with immaculate articulation. Eliza proves to be a disciplined and talented pupil who manages to pass the test of entering high society. Higgins attributes this success to his own genius and automatically lays claim to her. He fails to notice that his teaching has helped Eliza to become a self-aware and thoughtful woman who is not only capable of making her own decisions but of acting on them too.
31 May
Sat 31 May
Theaterführung (Theatre Tour) - 31 May
Every Saturday you have the opportunity to discover the world behind the scenes at the Residenztheater.
Sat 31 May
Warten auf Godot (Waiting for Godot) - 31 May
Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot, who they neither know who he is nor what they actually want from him. With his ambiguous work about waiting and the passing of time, which has been interpreted in all directions, Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett created one of the classics of modernism, which in-house director Claudia Bauer reinterprets.
Sat 31 May
(Nicht)Mütter! ((Non)Mothers!) - 31 May
22 voices talk about their mothers, becoming a mother, being a mother, never wanting to become a mother or not wanting to become a mother and not being able to become a mother. They intertwine to create a piece about decisions, doubts, (miscarriages) births, cancellations, transformations and courageous actions.
Sat 31 May
Das Gelobte Land (The promised land) - 31 May
Asiimwe Deborah Kawe's play tells the story of the life's work of an undocumented immigrant. Like so many others, the nurse Achen, the author's main character, contributes with her labour and as a taxpayer to the prosperity of a country that has decided to expel her overnight.