Life is hard for Marie-Antoinette and her husband King Louis XVI. For almost 20 years they have been locked up in the magnificent Palace of Versailles waiting for their beheading. Outside their window, the people constantly harass them with loud revolutionary slogans, their servants have shrunk to just one person, and they haven't even had a decent piece of cake for a long time. And although prominent figures from the French Revolution keep coming to visit unannounced, the executions simply don't progress. So Louis XVI has courageously worked on his own guillotine in secret. And what can we say - it works. After all, the royals have to kill time somehow in this entrenched situation; but also escape the thought that they will no longer find a place in this new world that is loudly forming outside the window.

Marie-Antoinette or cake for everyone!

Opernhaus Dortmund

Princess Rosalia is in a bad mood. Her tutor Marquis Stuck keeps telling her how she should be a "real" princess: how she should talk, sit, dress and behave. But she has no desire to do this and would much rather do everything completely differently. Her persistent resistance makes her tutor wonder: is there really only one way something can be "right"? In Being a princess? No, thank you! In the end, very little is as it seemed at the beginning. A story about self-determination, finding one's identity and questioning imposed role models - told with well-known melodies from operas by WA Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and others.

Be a princess? No thanks!

Gabriel Eisenstein is sent to prison for insulting an official. His friend Dr. Falke advises him to have some fun first, namely at Prince Orlofsky's ball. Rosalinde, Eisenstein's wife, who actually wanted to have fun with her lover Alfred during her husband's absence, also goes to the ball - but incognito as a masked Hungarian countess. And the chambermaid Adele also obtains a free evening for herself under the pretext of wanting to look after her sick aunt - but only to go to the ball as well. There, all the people finally meet under false identities and the erotic game of confusion takes its course...

The bat

The twins Fadeya and Taseh decide to find their father, who has been missing for many years. He is not just anyone, but the ruler of Sultania, a faraway country in the desert. The path to his palace turns out to be dangerous: the children encounter a hungry giant snake, are almost washed away by a raging river and have to overcome an almost insurmountable wall. Magical figures and all-knowing objects help the resourceful twins on their journey. Their most important companion: a talking camel!

The Sultan's Children

The unicorn family in the Heart Forest is having offspring! And they are just as cute and sweet as the Heart Forest itself: clouds made of candy floss, flowers as big as trees, stones made of plush, and the sun shines every day. A little too sweet for the little unicorn, because it says no to everything. No to swimming in the bubble lake. No to rainbow slides. No to sugared lucky clover. Its family doesn't know what to do anymore and calls it NEINhorn from now on. One sunny day, the NEINhorn decides that it has had enough of all the exhausting NEINhorn-ness and sets off for Nowhere. On the way, it meets the WASbear, who doesn't really listen, the NAHUND, who nothing can upset, and a King's DAUGHTER, who constantly talks back. Not even the NEINhorn says no to these new friendships, because it can be stubborn with them - and that's much more fun than alone!

The NEINhorn

Mara and Tara have just become friends when someone new appears: Kirsa. But the boy behaves differently than all the other children the two girls know. Because Mara and Tara don't like his behavior, they don't want to have anything to do with Kirsa. When Kirsa notices this, he withdraws into himself. But Mara can't stop thinking about the encounter with him. She has become curious and wants to find out more about this new and yet so interesting boy.

Franz Schilling

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Jan 13 - Feb 18, 2025

Marie-Antoinette or cake for everyone! · Theater Dortmund

Jan 23, 2025

Be a princess? No thanks! · Theater Dortmund

Jan 24 - Mar 1, 2025

The bat · Theater Dortmund

Jan 28 - Feb 25, 2025

The Sultan's Children · Theater Dortmund

Feb 15 - Mar 12, 2025

The NEINhorn · Theater Dortmund

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