Alex returns to his hometown. He doesn't remember much about his childhood, but something draws him to the pond of the old farmhouse where he used to play. Suddenly, amazing memories come back. What happened when his best friend Lettie disappeared? Wasn't that pond an entire ocean? Wasn't his father's friendly lodger actually a terrifying monster? Alex immerses himself in a magical world where something evil lurks, reaching out its fingers towards him and the boundaries between reality and fantasy become blurred.

The Ocean at the End of the Street

Kammerspiele

"The beggars beg, the thieves steal, the whores whore. And the shark has teeth, and it wears them on its face..." Brecht's sharp-tongued travesty, in which the beggars and crooks act more bourgeois than good society, seems to have lost a few of its sharp teeth today, so natural has Brecht's critique of capitalism become to us. Here, crime is subject to the ice-cold laws of the market and love has a precisely calculated price. And so greed and profiteering are the determining principles that neither an old male friendship nor a tender romance can withstand. Doesn't that still sound familiar?

Katharina Schmidt

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Jan 12 - Apr 19, 2025

The Ocean at the End of the Street · Staatstheater Darmstadt

Mar 24, 2024

The Threepenny Opera · Staatstheater Braunschweig

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