Name: The Nutcracker
Start: 2025-12-31T00:00:00
Location: Theater Basel

Sandra Bourdais

Jade Zanotti

Ana Paula Camargo

Jamal Uhlmann

Rosario Guerra

Parker Gamble

Elliana Mannella

Thomas Herzog

Louis Steinmetz

Nikita Zdravkovic

Michelangelo Chelucci

Rachelle Anaïs Scott

Udo Haberland

Michaela Springer

Marco Goecke

Theater Basel

«I am young, rich, and educated; and I am unhappy, neurotic, and alone.» These words open ‹Mars›, the cult book of the early 1980s. Raised in affluence, Zurich native Fritz Angst feels cheated out of life and raised to death by the bourgeois coldness of his world. Shortly before losing his battle with cancer in 1976, he wrote a passionate tirade under the name Fritz Zorn: his illness was not a personal fate, but a reflection of social decay. The book became a scandalous point of reference for the angry Swiss youth of the 1980s.

Mars

A spectacular founding of a city: Benedikt von Peters’ spatial staging invites the audience to wander through the supposed paradise city of Mahagonny. Here, there is endless pleasure and everything is permitted, as long as you can pay – «but something is missing!». To escape the emptiness, the inhabitants eat and drink themselves to death, fuck and box their way to the grave. Only in Jim Mahoney does the idea of a more humane existence quietly take root.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Marco Goecke’s interpretation of the ballet classic ‹Der Nussknacker› is surprising: it deliberately breaks with familiar imagery, opens up unfamiliar perspectives, and transports us into an imaginative, whimsical world that lies somewhere between a nightmare and reality.

The Nutcracker