Normally, the Marquise de Merteuil gets rid of her lovers. But it was different with the Comte de Gercourt, who ended the liaison. To take revenge on him, the Vicomte de Valmont, who is well-versed in all the arts of seduction, is supposed to take away Gercourt's virgin bride's innocence before the wedding. But Valmont feels called to greater things: he wants to make the modest Madame de Tourvel submissive and makes a bet with the Marquise, with whom he himself once had an affair: if he actually manages to seduce Tourvel, he and the Marquise will spend another night together. But the unscrupulous game of power and intrigue increasingly gets out of hand...

Dangerous Liaisons

Theater Nordhausen

Entertainment and knowledge transfer are possible with our workshop formats! In these 60-minute morning performances, we present a current production from our theater. Through interviews with the artists involved, the audience learns exciting things about the background of the piece, interesting facts about work processes in the theater and the process of creating a production. The overall theater experience is rounded off by a large excerpt from the original production.

Ballet workshop »Virginia Woolf«

This double evening with two very different choreographic signatures gets to the bottom of the challenges and secrets of life. Ballet director Ivan Alboresi has once again invited a top-class guest to Nordhausen to work with the ballet TN LOS!. The award-winning Spaniard Alba Castillo has created numerous works for companies around the globe. In 2020 she founded the Basel-based company Snorkel Rabbit with Bryan Arias. With expressive movements and intense storytelling, she is always exploring new boundaries.

Virginia Woolf/When it's time...

Man and nature, transience and new beginnings, romanticism and modernity - these pairs of terms can be used to describe the themes that ballet director Ivan Alboresi deals with in this double evening. Sources of inspiration for the first part are the romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich and Ludwig van Beethoven. Friedrich, whose birthday will be the 250th anniversary in September 2024, not only made his "chalk cliffs on Rügen" world famous. He immersed his motifs in masterful lighting moods, with which he expressed, among other things, the vulnerability of nature. In combination with Beethoven's 4th Symphony, in which lyrical lightheartedness meets darker colors, Ivan Alboresi's choreography paints a poetic vision of a relationship between man and nature that is as complex as it is intimate.

Friedrich/Le Sacre du Printemps

Theater Rudolstadt im Stadthaus

In 1983, "La Cage aux Folles" was the first musical to deal with a homosexual theme. After its premiere on Broadway in New York, it conquered the stages of Europe within a few years. With its turbulent story, its shrill characters and its catchy music, it is still very popular today and remains timelessly relevant with its plea to trust your own feelings and live authentically.

A Cage Full of Fools (La Cage aux Folles)

The flower shop owner Mr. Mushnik is losing customers because his shop has little to offer other than wilted flowers. He wants to close it down. But then his employee Seymour comes up with a special breed that is a carnivorous plant. As soon as it is placed in the window, the plant becomes an attraction. But it is demanding. Seymour initially feeds it blood, but at some point this is no longer enough for the ever-growing plant. It demands human flesh. In the end, Seymour is not the only victim of his own breed...

Little Shop of Horrors

As the fairy Carabosse is not invited to little Aurora's baptism, she puts a curse on the child: the girl is to prick herself on a spindle on her 16th birthday and die. Thanks to a good fairy, however, this misfortune is mitigated. Aurora does not die, but falls into a deep sleep from which she only awakens 100 years later with a kiss from Prince Désiré. She is happily reunited with him for life and the story ends with a happy ending.

Ivan Alboresi

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Mar 28 - Jun 1, 2025

Dangerous Liaisons · Theater Nordhausen

Feb 25, 2025

Ballet workshop »Virginia Woolf« · Theater Nordhausen

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