Name: Mirror Neurons
Start: 2026-01-09T19:30:00
Location: Aarhus Theatre

Melissa Kieffer

Sarah Potrafke

Orlando Rodriguez

László Sandig

Claudia De Serpa Soares

Wibke Storkan

Martin Hauk

Sandra Tiersch

Aarhus Teater

This year's Christmas performance is a completely new and fantastic story about two children's search for the enchanting Christmas that all the busy adults have almost completely forgotten.

Christmas doesn't exist

Aarhus Theatre

Phaedra is an ancient legend that speaks right into our time, when it shamelessly lustfully and with raw brutality depicts desire and the power of love. Phaedra falls in love with her stepson Hippolytus and is filled with an all-consuming desire. When Phaedra's husband suddenly collapses and goes into a coma, nothing can stop her anymore. Inevitably, the fateful wheel set in motion by the goddess of love Aphrodite rolls. Aarhus Theatre's Phaedra  stands on the shoulders of the mythical fabric that Euripides, Seneca and Racine, among others, have previously re-written. At the same time, it is part of a cultural trend where the desire of the middle-aged woman exists as an independent and dominant force. This can be seen, for example, in films such as Dronningen  from 2019 with Trine Dyrholm and Babygirl with Nicole Kidman from 2024.

Fathers

Dostoevsky is often called the greatest of the great Russian writers, and with enduring classics such as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, Dostoevsky definitely belongs in the super league of world literature. Last season, Aarhus Theatre had The Idiot on the bill, and now you have the chance to experience two of his lesser-known, but no less virtuoso, well-composed psychological portrayals of people in existential crises: The Eternal Husband from 1870 and The Meek from 1876.

Dostoevsky

Come and sing Christmas with the Aarhus Theatre Choir at the choir's traditional Christmas concert. The focal point of the concert is the beautiful Christmas songs and hymns.

Christmas concert with Aarhus Theatre Choir

An original and seductive examination of the relationship between individual and community through expressive dance, a giant mirror and the audience as a living organism.

Mirror Neurons

There is pressure on young people today. Social media, education, friends, parents, self-images and society's performance demands press on in an often crowded everyday life. At the same time, time is packed with political intentions, distractions and new quick fixes as solutions to the problems that you may encounter as a young person.

Pressure

The story of Tristan and Isolde has fascinated across geography and generations since the Middle Ages. And of all the love couples in art, Tristan and Isolde are perhaps the most tragic. The story is simple: The knight Tristan is sent across the sea to fetch the princess Isolde, who is to marry the king against her will. On the journey home, they both accidentally drink a love potion. Forbidden love arises – the kind that moves mountains and eats them up from the inside. And now we follow Tristan and Isolde into the deadly power of stormy love.

Tristan & Isolde

Voted best performance of the year 2024 – Christian Lollike's alarming and insanely funny comedy about the collapse of the Danish elementary school is now back.

The School Comedy

This is what children may say when you project some of the numbers and facts that, according to statistics, will define their lives.

Against All Odds

Join Aarhus Teater Læring's alternative school day, where we pay tribute to the teacher and let inspiration flow freely between insightful presentations, sharp debates and surprising features. We end in the world of (performing) art by watching Aarhus Teater and Christian Lollike's award-winning performance  Skolekomedien , which is based on authentic stories from teachers and students all over the country.

A tribute to the teacher

Dancing on my own is a powerful dance performance that delves into the complicated intricacies of love and the longing to be engulfed in the ecstasy and togetherness of the moment.

Dancing on my own

Lotte lies sleepless in her apartment. She has been abandoned by the love of her life, Michael. She has also just been fired from her job as a social worker. Throughout her adult years, Lotte has been committed to the community and her fellow human beings. She has taken care of the weakest, but now no one takes care of her. Suddenly, Michael's adult son, Daniel, calls, unable to reach his father. They find Michael beaten to death in his apartment, and together with Daniel, Lotte sets out to solve Michael's mysterious death.