Name: Die Krume Brot
Start: 2026-04-30T19:30:00
Location: Theater Basel

Gala Othero Winter

Elmira Bahrami

Fabian Dämmich

Kay Kysela

Andrea Bettini

Vera Flück

Jörg Pohl

Gina Haller

Annika Meier

Vassilios Chassapakis

Helen Stein

Antú Romero Nunes

Lena Schön

Theater Basel

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

For Adelina, born in Zurich, the daughter of Italian immigrants, there is no place in Switzerland. Inherited debts force her to abandon her apprenticeship. Single and with her young daughter Emma, she searches for a way out of the downward spiral. But the circumstances, a misogynistic and xenophobic society, prevent her from doing so. She finds herself in one awkward situation after another until a man who lovingly cares for her daughter takes her to Italy. However, Emma disappears without a trace, leading to a fateful encounter with the Red Brigades - and a realization.

Die Krume Brot