For international guests, Schauspiel Leipzig offers performances with English surtitles at regular intervals. Furthermore, English-language introductions will give you interesting background information about the plays and their productions.
The surtitles are best visible in the stalls (Parkett), starting from row 10. Surtitles are only partially legible in the tier (Rang). Please bear this in mind when purchasing tickets.
The surtitles are best visible in the stalls (Parkett), starting from row 10. Surtitles are only partially legible in the tier (Rang). Please bear this in mind when purchasing tickets.
by Heinrich von Kleist
Director: Elsa-Sophie Jach
Heinrich von Kleist wrote this judiciary farce in the context of a writers’ competition in 1803. He takes an acutely satirical look at the fragility of a legal system whose codes of practice and well-defined terminology often only barely manage to keep in check its sinister opponents – self-interest, abuse of power and arbitrariness. In Kleist’s verbal cascades, alleged truths continue to shift until judges are turned into condemned and bailiffs become judges. But the jug – well, the irreplaceable jug remains irredeemably broken.
Dates with English surtitles:
8.2. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
Director: Elsa-Sophie Jach
Heinrich von Kleist wrote this judiciary farce in the context of a writers’ competition in 1803. He takes an acutely satirical look at the fragility of a legal system whose codes of practice and well-defined terminology often only barely manage to keep in check its sinister opponents – self-interest, abuse of power and arbitrariness. In Kleist’s verbal cascades, alleged truths continue to shift until judges are turned into condemned and bailiffs become judges. But the jug – well, the irreplaceable jug remains irredeemably broken.
Dates with English surtitles:
8.2. / 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:
5.2. / 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:
5.2. / 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:
25.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
26.2. / 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:
25.1. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
26.2. / 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:
7.2. / 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:
7.2. / 19:30 / 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:
28.2. / 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:
28.2. / 19:30 / Große Bühne
