Name: Pettersson and Findus and the Rooster in the Basket
Start: 2026-05-20T10:00:00
Location: Detmold Theatre

Jaime Mondaca Galaz

Marianna Nomikou

Andreas Jören

Tobias Kruse

Felix Schmidt

Andrea Drabben

Annette Blazyczek

Max Gundermann

Rhiano Fadle

Holger Potocki

Jule Dohrn-van Rossum

Nils Lange

Landestheater Detmold

Human or monster? In Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, the young scientist Victor Frankenstein pursues an ambitious goal: he assembles a human being from various body parts and attempts to bring it to life. The result of his experiment, however, is decidedly ambivalent. When he finally comes face to face with his "creation," he is overcome with horror and flees from his own creation. Is it a demonic monster, born of hubris and obsessive scientific curiosity? Or is this being, brought into the world without its own intervention, also a vulnerable creature, yearning for love, affection, and friendship?

Frankenstein

Bocholt Textile Factory

Kulturring Peine e.V.

Municipal Stage House Wesel

Palatin Cultural Center

Detmold Theatre

When a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the middle of the Sahara, he is astonished to find a little prince approaching him and asking him to draw a sheep. It quickly becomes clear that the little prince comes from a distant planet. He left after a quarrel with a rose and has been traveling through space ever since. He meets all sorts of inhabitants of other planets and learns about their longings, but feels like a stranger everywhere he goes. After a touching encounter with a fox who reveals a secret to him, it is time for the little prince to return home: to his planet with its three volcanoes and the rose he loves.

The Little Prince

Heinz-Hilpert-Theater

Stadtverwaltung Troisdorf

Theater am Wall

“With everything I do, I have to think about the others who are gone. And when I have to laugh about something, I stop in shock and think to myself that it’s a shame to be cheerful. But do I have to cry all day?”

Anne Frank

CJD Sekundarschule Versmold

Lindenhof Bad Pyrmont

Realschule Nettetal / Kaldenkirchen

theater itzehoe

Junges Theater

Two giants of London's underworld clash: On one side, Jonathan Peachum, who has turned begging in the metropolis into a lucrative business. On the other, Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, the gang leader, who, thanks to his excellent connections with the police, is considered completely innocent. When Peachum's daughter Polly marries Macheath, the conflict erupts into open conflict. Can the marriage be annulled, perhaps even by hanging? The beggar king denounces the master criminal: Mackie Messer is forced into hiding, betrays Polly, and is betrayed himself. And above it all, the moon shines over Soho!

The Threepenny Opera

Stadt Northeim

Teo Otto Theater der Stadt Remscheid

Theater & Konzerthaus Solingen

Tourist, Congress and Saalbau GmbH

Who doesn't know him, the impoverished country gentleman tilting at windmills? Don Quixote, who suffers so much from reality that he escapes into the world of his beloved chivalric romances and loses himself in this dream world. Equipped with his imagination as armor, his chivalric ideals as weapons, and his faithful squire Sancho Panza at his side, Don Quixote embarks on unknown adventures. He fights against imaginary enemies and illusions, but at his core, always for his true ideals. He is constantly searching for his equally imagined great love, Dulcinea, an ideal he projects onto all women. He actually helps the young Kitri escape a forced marriage and marry her true love. He survives all his adventures unscathed—until, at the end of his journey, he encounters his own reflection and recognizes his self-deception.

Don Quixote

Paderhalle Paderborn

In a village on the Cornish coast, shipwrecks during storms are considered divine gifts to be plundered. But there seems to be a traitor, warning ships offshore with beacons. Whoever it is must die.

The Wreckers

Georges and Albin have been a couple for decades. Georges runs the drag club "La Cage aux Folles," where Albin, as the dazzling drag queen Zaza, enchants audiences night after night. Together, they raised Georges' son, Jean-Michel. Now he wants to marry Anne, the daughter of an arch-conservative politician who has the closure of all clubs on his agenda! The two families are to meet at a dinner party. Fun and disaster are guaranteed when different lifestyles and emotional worlds collide. And, let's just say this: both families have their secrets and quirks. The themes of "love," "tolerance," and "acceptance" are as relevant today as they were at the Broadway premiere forty years ago, because we still don't live in a world where everyone can be whoever and however they want to be.

La Cage aux Folles

Forum Leverkusen - KulturStadtLev

Stadttheater Ingolstadt

Stadttheater Minden

Stadthalle am Schloss

Theater Winterthur

Fidgety Philip, Soup-Kaspar, Struwwelpeter, Johnny Head-in-Air, Conrad the Thumb-Sucker, the Pyromaniac Paulinchen, Evil Frederick & Co. – the stories of naughty children who meet a gruesome end are as legendary as they are controversial. Since their first publication by the psychiatrist and children's author Heinrich Hoffmann in 1845, these tales, intended to instill morality and "decent" behavior in boys and girls, have lost none of their gruesome fascination.

Shockheaded Peter

Main Hall, Harztheater

Stadttheater Fürth

Safa and Aisha are best friends. The two Pakistani-British women from London's East End have known each other for what feels like forever. But now, at 21, they are about to enter the workforce, and their paths diverge for the first time: While Aisha starts as a teaching assistant at her old school and becomes increasingly interested in her roots, Safa begins working as a marketing assistant at a trendy advertising agency and adapts more and more to her new upper-class colleagues in terms of language, clothing, and behavior. After a terrorist attack, both women suddenly find themselves under suspicion because of their Muslim heritage. The question of assimilating into mainstream society or remaining true to their own roots becomes increasingly pressing – and their friendship is put to a severe test.

Jump

Jennifer is home alone. Her mother suddenly has to work a night shift at the hospital, and her father no longer lives with them. Jennifer is actually a little afraid of being alone, but it's also a great opportunity to do all the things Mom usually forbids: lying on the sofa with her shoes on, ordering pizza without permission, and watching TV until she drops. But even that gets boring eventually, and Jennifer becomes increasingly anxious. The best thing to do is hide in the closet. But what's this? Someone's already in there: Fearman, a terrified superhero from a distant galaxy. He's on the run from the nasty Rabbleman, who, of course, happens to ring the doorbell at this very moment. Chaos ensues.

Fear Man

JugendFreizeitZentrum JFZ St.Tönis

Stadttheater Herford

Theater Hameln

To invade another person's privacy against their will, physical violence isn't always necessary. Sometimes just a word, a thoughtless comment, a misguided gesture, a glance lingering a little too long is enough.

No means no, right...?

heruM Henne Ruhr Markt

Nothing is working anymore: On their way to the coronation of Charles X of France, a group of aristocratic travelers from all over Europe find themselves stranded at a luxury hotel near Reims – chaos is inevitable. And so, love affairs, intrigues, jealousy, and the like soon erupt between all parties.

The Journey to Reims

Pettersson and Findus, the quirky protagonists of the famous Swedish children's book series, are inseparable and lead a peaceful life on their farm. That is, until Caruso, the vain rooster from the neighboring farm, disturbs their blissful solitude while fleeing the soup pot. Caruso crows incessantly, playing tunes and shamelessly turning the heads of the farm's hens. Everyone loves Caruso. Everyone except Findus. The tame cat's spirit is shaken. Findus fears for his position as Pettersson's favorite, and when he's had enough, he hatches a cunning plan.