A group of actors and an author attempt to stage Shakespeare's poem ‹Die Schändung der Lucretia›. They hold auditions for all the roles, analyze the text, reenact the situations, and connect them to their own experiences. As a band, they transform all the anger and pain into music. Sexualized violence is omnipresent and political. Countless stories, songs, films, and images of assault shape our culture. Director Lola Arias bases her play on research and conversations with victims of violence, artists, and philosophers. What images come to mind when we say the word rape? How much silence, fear, and shame do we carry with us? How is sexual violence embedded in our bodies and in society?

The Rape of Lucretia: A Casting

Theater Basel

Love is like a chemical reaction between unknown components. In his work ‹Wahlverwandtschaften›, Goethe conducts the following experiment: Charlotte and Eduard are a unit. Their bond is put to the test by the addition of Ottilie and the Captain. Eduard is attracted to Ottilie, Charlotte to the Captain. Director Leonie Böhm continues the experimental setup of the classic material and looks at the network of relationships from a contemporary perspective: in Goethe's language, Leonie Böhm asks how we deal with change in our relationships. And what the continuation of the community might look like. Leonie Böhm was recently awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize for her production of ‹Fräulein Else› and invited to the 2026 Berlin Theater Meeting. After ‹König Teiresias›, she is now working with the Basel company for the second time.

Elective Affinities

April 29, 2008: The discoverer of LSD takes one last trip for his final journey. At his deathbed, an elite circle of seasoned psychonauts accepts the task of completing his life's work: healing the world with the help of a new peace drug LSD-1000. But the details, including the chemical formulas, fall into the wrong hands. A turbulent chase through secret laboratories and the back rooms of power begins. Who will be able to taste the drop of enlightenment, and how will these chosen ones react? After ‹Immer Ärger mit Bartleby›, Rocko Schamoni and Jörg Pohl take us on a crazy journey across Basel and beyond, into a world beyond the gates of perception.

Die Ritter des Mutterkorns

When Hamlet returns home, nothing is as it was before. His father is dead, his mother Gertrude has remarried his uncle Claudius, who now rules Denmark. For young Hamlet, the world has been turned upside down. Then his father's ghost appears and complains that Claudius poisoned him. Can that be true? Who can he still trust – the living, the dead, himself? With the help of a troupe of actors, Hamlet sets out to uncover the truth. But the play within the play becomes a trap: Hamlet is caught in an endless loop of his own story. Scenes repeat themselves, shifting perspectives and revealing new truths. It becomes almost impossible to distinguish between appearance and reality. Following the great success of ‹Ein Sommernachtstraum›, the Basel-based company once again turns its attention to a Shakespeare masterpiece. Who is acting and who is not? And if everyone is acting, who can still be truthful?

Mario Bubic

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May 2 - Jun 9, 2026

The Rape of Lucretia: A Casting · Theater Basel

May 11 - Jun 11, 2026

Elective Affinities · Theater Basel

May 15 - Jun 14, 2026

Die Ritter des Mutterkorns · Theater Basel

May 25, 2026

Hamlet · Theater Basel

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