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:
4.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
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:
4.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
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
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:
30.11. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
20.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne (THEATER-DAY: each ticket for 13,- on all seats!)
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:
30.11. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
20.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne (THEATER-DAY: each ticket for 13,- on all seats!)
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:
29.11. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
8.12. / 16:00 / 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:
29.11. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
8.12. / 16:00 / Große Bühne
Musical by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb
Director: Hubert Wild
“Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome” – every night, the Kit Kat Club’s Emcee extends this cosmopolitan greeting to its audience. Clifford Bradshaw is among the throng of guests who immerse themselves in the nightlife, in the world of cabaret and drag shows, in the multitude of life plans, the promise of an alternative lifestyle – an ecstatic exploration of freedom.
Dates with english surtitles:
28.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Director: Hubert Wild
“Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome” – every night, the Kit Kat Club’s Emcee extends this cosmopolitan greeting to its audience. Clifford Bradshaw is among the throng of guests who immerse themselves in the nightlife, in the world of cabaret and drag shows, in the multitude of life plans, the promise of an alternative lifestyle – an ecstatic exploration of freedom.
Dates with english surtitles:
28.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
by Bertolt Brecht
Director: Nuran David Calis
Chicago after the stock market crash: One crisis is followed by the next, and where can you make easy savings during an inflation? On vegetables. Even the ever-popular cauliflower is left on the shelves. Chicago’s greengrocers are desperate. Only yesterday they were well-known and confident as the world’s leading cauliflower grocers, today they have gone bankrupt. One man’s meat is another man’s poison, and Chicago’s crime boss Arturo Ui smells an opportunity.
Dates with english surtitles:
13.12. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Director: Nuran David Calis
Chicago after the stock market crash: One crisis is followed by the next, and where can you make easy savings during an inflation? On vegetables. Even the ever-popular cauliflower is left on the shelves. Chicago’s greengrocers are desperate. Only yesterday they were well-known and confident as the world’s leading cauliflower grocers, today they have gone bankrupt. One man’s meat is another man’s poison, and Chicago’s crime boss Arturo Ui smells an opportunity.
Dates with english surtitles:
13.12. / 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.
