“The Ring of the Nibelung” or just “The Ring” ? Wagner’s work is so well known in the German-speaking world that there is sometimes no need to write the full title, but whenever I talk…
Imagine you’re lost in someone’s consciousness: a place where memories and dreams intertwine and the lines between the physical and virtual worlds blur. Part immersive installation, part interactive performance, “If You Would Play Again” invites…
Onegin is a masterpiece of modern German ballet, premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965 with John Cranko as choreographer. The plot is based on the vers novel of the same name by the 19th…
A huge trumpet-shaped stage faces the audience, and on the huge slope one confuses dream and reality, disrupting the continuum of time and reflecting on the contradictions of class. The Graf Öderland is about a…
It feels like a family reunion every time a play from the Lilienthal era comes back to the Kammerspiele, which was a complete disappointment in 2021. The play is based on Schiller’s play “The Robbers”, and…
Two rooms, almost identical, are separated in the middle of the stage. A young man and an old man are methodically sorting out the clutter as the narrator slowly comes on stage and begins to…
As the theatre falls silent and the stage lights fade, the silhouettes of a dozen dancers slowly begin to move, at first mechanically turning their heads and waving their arms, but then as the lights…
A brightly lit gas station occupies the entire stage, and every detail of the gas station is a one-to-one replica of the one in real life, from chewing gum and potato chips to several different…
is an adaptation of a play by French writer Jean-Luc Lagarce. An artist who hasn’t been home for 12 years, on the verge of a serious illness, tries to reconnect with his family, telling them…
It’s Not Only Bach and Beethoven