Premiere on 31.1.2025
By William Shakespeare
German translation Sven-Eric Bechtolf & Wolfgang Wiens
Director: Pia Richter
We live in a time where romantic love as a universal longing may still fill the cinemas but is often met with cynicism in real life. So what is it about Shakespeare’s most famous lovers that continues to enthral us? In all their radical self-abandonment, are Romeo and Juliet a progressive alternative concept for today?
Dates with english surtitles:
11.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
THEATER-DAY: each ticket for 13,- on all seats!
German translation Sven-Eric Bechtolf & Wolfgang Wiens
Director: Pia Richter
We live in a time where romantic love as a universal longing may still fill the cinemas but is often met with cynicism in real life. So what is it about Shakespeare’s most famous lovers that continues to enthral us? In all their radical self-abandonment, are Romeo and Juliet a progressive alternative concept for today?
Dates with english surtitles:
11.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
THEATER-DAY: each ticket for 13,- on all seats!
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Director: Nuran David Calis
A long time ago, Güllen was a wealthy city. Now it is looking into the abyss of financial ruin. Sell-out and seizure are threatening. In this fatal situation, the residents are have nothing to hope for – except for the visit of an old lady, multi-millionaire Claire Zachanassian. Perhaps she can revive the ruined city of Güllen with an endowment?
Dates with english surtitles:
21.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Director: Nuran David Calis
A long time ago, Güllen was a wealthy city. Now it is looking into the abyss of financial ruin. Sell-out and seizure are threatening. In this fatal situation, the residents are have nothing to hope for – except for the visit of an old lady, multi-millionaire Claire Zachanassian. Perhaps she can revive the ruined city of Güllen with an endowment?
Dates with english surtitles:
21.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
von Euripides
Regie: Markus Bothe
8.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Einer ungewissen Zukunft in der Verbannung entgegenblickend, greift die stolze Königstochter Medea zur letzten ihr noch zur Verfügung stehenden, grausamen Tat … „Medea“ ist ein Mythos, der uns seit über 2000 Jahren beunruhigend und radikal aufs Neue fasziniert.
Regie: Markus Bothe
8.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Einer ungewissen Zukunft in der Verbannung entgegenblickend, greift die stolze Königstochter Medea zur letzten ihr noch zur Verfügung stehenden, grausamen Tat … „Medea“ ist ein Mythos, der uns seit über 2000 Jahren beunruhigend und radikal aufs Neue fasziniert.
by Georg Büchner
Director: Enrico Lübbe
“On and on. On and on.” Life is a roundabout, constantly spinning. A person approaches here, words drift by there, lights, voices. For Woyzeck, life’s spinning only ever passes him by. “I think if we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help with the thunder”, he says.
Dates with English surtitles:
20.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne (THEATER-DAY: each ticket for 13,- on all seats!)
9.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Director: Enrico Lübbe
“On and on. On and on.” Life is a roundabout, constantly spinning. A person approaches here, words drift by there, lights, voices. For Woyzeck, life’s spinning only ever passes him by. “I think if we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help with the thunder”, he says.
Dates with English surtitles:
20.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne (THEATER-DAY: each ticket for 13,- on all seats!)
9.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
by Joseph Kesselring
Director: Tina Lanik
“Arsenic and Old Lace” was premiered in 1942 and may be the most amicable, famous and dark among all famous dark theatre comedies. Nothing and nobody is ‘normal’ here. Abby and Martha are the least normal of them all; they do the darkest things with the greatest air of normality and helpful peace of mind. Morality is a malleable term in the two aunts’ house, but how they all uphold it as a matter of course is very, very funny.
Dates with English surtitles:
5.1., 25.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Director: Tina Lanik
“Arsenic and Old Lace” was premiered in 1942 and may be the most amicable, famous and dark among all famous dark theatre comedies. Nothing and nobody is ‘normal’ here. Abby and Martha are the least normal of them all; they do the darkest things with the greatest air of normality and helpful peace of mind. Morality is a malleable term in the two aunts’ house, but how they all uphold it as a matter of course is very, very funny.
Dates with English surtitles:
5.1., 25.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
by William Shakespeare
These are uncertain times. No one knows what tomorrow may bring. Who will rule, who will be overthrown? Who is still playing the game of power and who has already lost – lost the game, lost power and lost their life? Richard, Duke of Gloucester, wants to be more than just a pawn in this game. He wants to be the key player. The one who beats them all.
Dates with english surtitles:
14.12., 10.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
These are uncertain times. No one knows what tomorrow may bring. Who will rule, who will be overthrown? Who is still playing the game of power and who has already lost – lost the game, lost power and lost their life? Richard, Duke of Gloucester, wants to be more than just a pawn in this game. He wants to be the key player. The one who beats them all.
Dates with english surtitles:
14.12., 10.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Some productions of Schauspiel Leipzig are made accessible to an international audience by means of English surtitles. Performance dates featuring surtitles are marked in the monthly in our programme.
