Welt/Bühne Salon
Content description
Each playwright will be introduced to the audience during their residency. In the WELT/BÜHNE Salon, Residenztheater-actors will read the guests' latest texts, after which there will be an opportunity to get to know the authors and ask questions: What role does theatre play in their home countries? What are the working conditions like? What is their fascination with theatre? But also: How do they view us and the German-speaking theatre landscape?
Salon No. 8 with Mariam Megvinyte
Mariam Megvinyte is a well-known author and theatre director in Georgia. In autumn 2025, she will be a guest at the Residenztheater Munich for a three-month writing residency. Her writing is strongly influenced by the explosive current situation in her home country as well as by ancient themes, which she translates into poetic contemporary language. At the Welt/Bühne Salon, ensemble members Felicia Chin-Malenski and Barbara Horvath will read from their latest play, «Jokasta».
In conversation with Almut Wagner and translator and art historian Wachtang Tscheischwili, she will talk about her artistic work.
The reading will be staged by Antonia Schmidt.
The reading will be in German, the conversation in English with German surtitles.
