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19 Mar

Tuesday

Tue 19 Mar

Marstall, 20.00–21.20 o'clock

Erinnerung eines Mädchens (A Girl's Story)

by Annie Ernaux
World Premiere
Prices V
28 €

In her autobiographical memoir «A Girl’s Story», published in 2016, the French writer Annie Ernaux attempts to understand a deeply formative experience in her own life. What happened to her, a young woman aged 18 at the time, in the summer of 1958? Between fragments of memories, diary entries, letters and decades-old photos, the author undertakes an almost forensic analysis of what happened, its effects and the social frameworks and sexual double standards that grant or refuse entirely different forms of «freedom» to men and women respectively. «A Girl’s Story» shows an almost 80-year-old woman painfully confronting sexual shame, impotence and self-empowerment and is – shortly before the #MeToo movement arose – a touching and highly political document of putting an end to silence.

Go to page «Erinnerung eines Mädchens (A Girl's Story)»

20 Mar

Wednesday

Wed 20 Mar

19.00–21.00 o'clock

Resi-Workshop

Prices 15/8€

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.

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Wed 20 Mar

Marstall, 19.00–21.00 o'clock

Die Kopenhagen-Trilogie (The Copenhagen Trilogy)

based on the novels «Childhood» – «Youth» – «Dependency» by Tove Ditlevsen adapted for the stage by Tom Silkeberg
Resifreunde-Abo
Prices V
28 €

Copenhagen’s working-class district of Vesterbro in the 1920s has little room for the talent and dreams of young Tove. She leaves school at the age of fourteen and is sent against her will to work as a maid and later as a clerical worker. However, she refuses to give up, publishes her early poems and stories and continues to seek her freedom as a writer. In the «Copenhagen Trilogy» Tove Ditlevsen uses her own biography to tell of an escape from a complicated everyday reality into storytelling, skilfully interweaving fiction and reality. Her first-person narrator, with whom she shares a name, delivers a humorous and laconic account of a personal life that is nevertheless political. 

Go to page «Die Kopenhagen-Trilogie (The Copenhagen Trilogy)»

Wed 20 Mar

Residenztheater, 20.00–21.30 o'clock | Audience Discussion afterwards

Prima Facie

by Suzie Miller
Abo 34
Prices F
14 to 44 €

Tessa Ensler is a tough defence lawyer. In her early thirties she has managed what very few people believed she could: she has made her way from an underprivileged background to an elite university and on to a top legal firm. She specializes in defending cases of sexual assault. Is her rate of acquittals so high because she is a woman, as is rumoured – or is it because she is so good at spotting holes and contradictions in the statements of the female victims?

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21 Mar

Thursday

Thu 21 Mar

Residenztheater, 19.30–22.40 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES

Woyzeck

by Georg Büchner
Abo 43
Prices H
20 to 54 €

Georg Büchner’s fragile fragment, one of the most important dramas in German literature, is based on the case of the soldier Woyzeck, who murdered his lover and was sentenced to death in 1824. Büchner was familiar with the facts of this historic criminal case which were detailed in legal, medical and psychological reports. He shows a murder of jealousy and the events that lead up to it: Woyzeck, «a good chap and a poor devil», forced onto the lowest level of society financially, humiliated by his superiors, experimented upon by science, is exposed to a radical lack of empathy from the world around him. As a result, he becomes guilty, once his fears, instincts and desires break out obscenely from inside him.

Go to page «Woyzeck»

Thu 21 Mar

Cuvilliéstheater
Premiere

Pygmalion

by Amir Reza Koohestani and Mahin Sadri after the comedy by George Bernard Shaw
World premiere / Commissioned work

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.

Go to page «Pygmalion»

Thu 21 Mar

Marstall, 20.00–21.20 o'clock | 19.30 p.m. Introduction

Mitläufer (Fellow Travellers)

A research project by Noam Brusilovsky
World Premiere / Commissioned Work
Prices U
24 €

«Mitläufer» (Fellow Travellers) is a historical exploration of the contradictory biographies of those whose close contacts with the Nazi party helped them to reach the top echelons of the theatre. In this research project, the Residenztheater, one of the oldest German theatres, examines a dark chapter in its own history.

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22 Mar

Friday

Fri 22 Mar

Residenztheater, 19.30–22.40 o'clock

Woyzeck

by Georg Büchner
Abo 53
Prices H
20 to 54 €

Georg Büchner’s fragile fragment, one of the most important dramas in German literature, is based on the case of the soldier Woyzeck, who murdered his lover and was sentenced to death in 1824. Büchner was familiar with the facts of this historic criminal case which were detailed in legal, medical and psychological reports. He shows a murder of jealousy and the events that lead up to it: Woyzeck, «a good chap and a poor devil», forced onto the lowest level of society financially, humiliated by his superiors, experimented upon by science, is exposed to a radical lack of empathy from the world around him. As a result, he becomes guilty, once his fears, instincts and desires break out obscenely from inside him.

Go to page «Woyzeck»

Fri 22 Mar

Marstall, 20.00–21.10 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | 19.30 p.m. Introduction | Audience Discussion afterwards

blues in schwarz weiss (BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE)

with texts by May Ayim and Julienne De Muirier
Prices V
28 €

In the two volumes of poetry that were published before her early death, May Ayim finds a concise, poetic language with which she processes her experiences of racism and lack of understanding alongside her childhood and her desire for love, her joy and her sadness. She plays with sounds, methods of writing and letters, and yet always finds very clear words for what needs to change in Germany.

Go to page «blues in schwarz weiss (BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE)»

23 Mar

Saturday

Sat 23 Mar

Residenztheater, 19.00–22.00 o'clock

Peer Gynt

A dramatic poem by Henrik Ibsen
Abo 62
Prices H
20 to 54 €

«Peer, you’re lying!»: Henrik Ibsen immediately highlights the key theme of his dramatic poem  in its opening line – the blurred boundary between illusion and reality. Because Peer, whose youth is shaped by the poverty of his farming background, continually reinvents himself with the aid of stories, lies and the arts of fabulation – as a cosmopolitan, a colonial master and even an Emperor.

Go to page «Peer Gynt»

Sat 23 Mar

Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30–22.30 o'clock

Buddenbrooks

after the novel by Thomas Mann adapted for the stage by Bastian Kraft
Prices H
20 to 54 €

«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.

Go to page «Buddenbrooks»

Sat 23 Mar

Marstall, 20.00–21.15 o'clock | RESI FÜR ALLE

Tick Tack

based on the novel by Julia von Lucadou
world premiere
Prices T
21 €

Brimming with neologisms and the sound of Denglish, in her new novel «Tick Tack» Julia von Lucadou takes a deep dive into the world of Generation Z. 15-year-old Mette announces her intention of throwing herself on the U-Bahn line in TikTok videos. No one reacts, but she is saved anyway.

Go to page «Tick Tack»

24 Mar

Sunday

Sun 24 Mar

Residenztheater, 18.30–20.45 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES

Andersens Erzählungen (ANDERSEN’S STORIES)

A piece of music theatre by Jherek Bischoff, Jan Dvořák and Philipp Stölzl
German Premiere
Geschenkabo 1
Prices I
24 to 58 €

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.

Go to page «Andersens Erzählungen (ANDERSEN’S STORIES)»

Sun 24 Mar

Marstall, 19.00–21.50 o'clock

Athena

A music theatre installation by Robert Borgmann freely adapted from Aeschylusʼs «Eumenides»
Prices U
24 €

After Orestes’s bloody revenge on his mother Clytemnestra for her murder of his father Agamemnon, he flees from the angry goddesses of vengeance. He seeks sanctuary in the temple of Apollo and appeals to the god for protection from the furies – but even Apollo is powerless against them, so Athena must decide Orestes’s fate. However, the goddess will not do so alone: a court of mortals who have sworn an oath to her will ultimately judge which murder weighs heavier: that of one’s mother or one’s husband.

Go to page «Athena»

Sun 24 Mar

Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock

Pygmalion

by Amir Reza Koohestani and Mahin Sadri after the comedy by George Bernard Shaw
World premiere / Commissioned work
Cuvilliéstheater-Abo
Prices G
16 to 48 €

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.

Go to page «Pygmalion»

25 Mar

Monday

Mon 25 Mar

Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30–22.00 o'clock

Warten auf Platonow (Waiting for Platonow)

by Thom Luz after motifs by Anton Chekhov
Prices E
12 to 40 €

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.

Go to page «Warten auf Platonow (Waiting for Platonow)»

Mon 25 Mar

Marstall, 20.00–22.50 o'clock

Athena

A music theatre installation by Robert Borgmann freely adapted from Aeschylusʼs «Eumenides»
Prices U
24 €

After Orestes’s bloody revenge on his mother Clytemnestra for her murder of his father Agamemnon, he flees from the angry goddesses of vengeance. He seeks sanctuary in the temple of Apollo and appeals to the god for protection from the furies – but even Apollo is powerless against them, so Athena must decide Orestes’s fate. However, the goddess will not do so alone: a court of mortals who have sworn an oath to her will ultimately judge which murder weighs heavier: that of one’s mother or one’s husband.

Go to page «Athena»

26 Mar

Tuesday

Tue 26 Mar

Marstall, 19.00–21.00 o'clock

Die Kopenhagen-Trilogie (The Copenhagen Trilogy)

based on the novels «Childhood» – «Youth» – «Dependency» by Tove Ditlevsen adapted for the stage by Tom Silkeberg
Prices V
28 €

Copenhagen’s working-class district of Vesterbro in the 1920s has little room for the talent and dreams of young Tove. She leaves school at the age of fourteen and is sent against her will to work as a maid and later as a clerical worker. However, she refuses to give up, publishes her early poems and stories and continues to seek her freedom as a writer. In the «Copenhagen Trilogy» Tove Ditlevsen uses her own biography to tell of an escape from a complicated everyday reality into storytelling, skilfully interweaving fiction and reality. Her first-person narrator, with whom she shares a name, delivers a humorous and laconic account of a personal life that is nevertheless political. 

Go to page «Die Kopenhagen-Trilogie (The Copenhagen Trilogy)»

Tue 26 Mar

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

Anne-Marie die Schönheit (ANNE-MARIE THE BEAUTY)

by Yasmina Reza
Abo 23
Prices F
14 to 44 €

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.

Go to page «Anne-Marie die Schönheit (ANNE-MARIE THE BEAUTY)»

27 Mar

Wednesday

Wed 27 Mar

19.00–20.30 o'clock | Meeting Point: Marstall

Die Nacht kurz vor den Wäldern (THE NIGHT JUST BEFORE THE FORESTS)

by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Prices 20€

Bernard-Marie Koltès’s first text for theatre is a cryptic monologue that brought the French playwright instant fame in 1977: it shows a driven man searching for human contact.  In this production, the audience follows the actor Michael Wächter on his way through the city at night, listening to his interior monologue on headphones.

Go to page «Die Nacht kurz vor den Wäldern (THE NIGHT JUST BEFORE THE FORESTS)»

Wed 27 Mar

Residenztheater, 19.30–20.50 o'clock

Jetzt oder nie (NOW OR NEVER)

An evening of songs by Florian Paul and Max Rothbart
Abo 33
Prices F
14 to 44 €

Imagine that you haven’t been born yet. And imagine too that your whole life so far is unimportant. Just like all the opportunities you might have missed or bad decisions you might have made. Leave it all behind you. In «Now or Never» we are going to make a completely fresh start!

Go to page «Jetzt oder nie (NOW OR NEVER)»

Wed 27 Mar

Marstall, 20.00–21.10 o'clock

Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund (Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy)

by Witold Gombrowicz
Prices U
24 €

«Let’s say someone comes up to you and tells you you’re such and such a person, tells you the worst, says the most appalling things, things that could kill someone, absolutely destroy them, leave them speechless and lifeless. And then you say: Yes, that’s what I’m like, it’s true, but … But so what?» – With these words Prince Philip attempts to break down the reserve of his new fiancée Yvonne, but they also describe the essential plot of this first play by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz.

Go to page «Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund (Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy)»

28 Mar

Thursday

Thu 28 Mar

Residenztheater, 19.30–22.40 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES

Woyzeck

by Georg Büchner
Abo 42
Prices H
20 to 54 €

Georg Büchner’s fragile fragment, one of the most important dramas in German literature, is based on the case of the soldier Woyzeck, who murdered his lover and was sentenced to death in 1824. Büchner was familiar with the facts of this historic criminal case which were detailed in legal, medical and psychological reports. He shows a murder of jealousy and the events that lead up to it: Woyzeck, «a good chap and a poor devil», forced onto the lowest level of society financially, humiliated by his superiors, experimented upon by science, is exposed to a radical lack of empathy from the world around him. As a result, he becomes guilty, once his fears, instincts and desires break out obscenely from inside him.

Go to page «Woyzeck»

Thu 28 Mar

Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock | 19.00 p.m. Introduction

Pygmalion

by Amir Reza Koohestani and Mahin Sadri after the comedy by George Bernard Shaw
World premiere / Commissioned work
Prices G
16 to 48 €

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.

Go to page «Pygmalion»

30 Mar

Saturday

Sat 30 Mar

Residenztheater, 19.30–21.45 o'clock | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES | WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES

Andersens Erzählungen (ANDERSEN’S STORIES)

A piece of music theatre by Jherek Bischoff, Jan Dvořák and Philipp Stölzl
German Premiere
Prices I
24 to 58 €

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.

Go to page «Andersens Erzählungen (ANDERSEN’S STORIES)»

Sat 30 Mar

Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30–22.30 o'clock

Buddenbrooks

after the novel by Thomas Mann adapted for the stage by Bastian Kraft
Prices H
20 to 54 €

«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.

Go to page «Buddenbrooks»

Sat 30 Mar

Marstall, 20.00–21.20 o'clock

Erinnerung eines Mädchens (A Girl's Story)

by Annie Ernaux
World Premiere
Prices V
28 €

In her autobiographical memoir «A Girl’s Story», published in 2016, the French writer Annie Ernaux attempts to understand a deeply formative experience in her own life. What happened to her, a young woman aged 18 at the time, in the summer of 1958? Between fragments of memories, diary entries, letters and decades-old photos, the author undertakes an almost forensic analysis of what happened, its effects and the social frameworks and sexual double standards that grant or refuse entirely different forms of «freedom» to men and women respectively. «A Girl’s Story» shows an almost 80-year-old woman painfully confronting sexual shame, impotence and self-empowerment and is – shortly before the #MeToo movement arose – a touching and highly political document of putting an end to silence.

Go to page «Erinnerung eines Mädchens (A Girl's Story)»

31 Mar

Sunday

Sun 31 Mar

Residenztheater, 19.00–20.30 o'clock

Minetti

A Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man
Prices H
20 to 54 €

Ostend – the Atlantic coast, driving snow, New Year’s Eve, in the foyer of a hotel whose best days are behind it. This is where Minetti, an old «theatre artist», ends up lonely – and yet surrounded by a group of «madmen». Or are they like minds? Celebrating, wearing masks, drunk … of whom we do not know where they come from or where they are going to – they all pass across the hotel foyer like creatures from another world… Is this a comedy? Or a tragedy?

Go to page «Minetti»

Sun 31 Mar

Marstall, 19.00–20.45 o'clock

Spitzenreiterinnen

based on the novel by Jovana Reisinger
Prices V
28 €

Jovana Reisinger’s novel follows nine women from early spring to the summer of an unspecified year not far from the present. All of them live in or around Munich and they are all named after women’s magazines. They live and fail representatively, each of them alone and yet collectively, by the images and ideals of what it means to be a woman.

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Sun 31 Mar

Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30–21.30 o'clock

Die Fliegen (the flies)

by Jean-Paul Sartre with a prologue and epilogue by Thomas Köck
Prices G
16 to 48 €

After fifteen years in exile, Orestes returns incognito to his home city of Argos – the same city in which his father Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus on his victorious return from Troy. However, desire for revenge is not the reason for his spontaneous homecoming – it is the rumour of a mysterious plague of flies. When his sister Electra persuades him to stay, it gradually dawns on him that Clytemnestra and Aegisthus are not only cruelly oppressing the people, they have also implicated him in Agamemnon’s murder. Only then does Orestes decide to take action.

Go to page «Die Fliegen (the flies)»