"And what I remember most clearly is the sound of all the mobile phones. By now many relatives had found out what had happened and started calling. You could see the names on the phone displays. Mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers. For obvious reasons, no one answered."

We are Orlando

Uppsala City Theater

In his play "Birthday Candles," American playwright Noah Haidle spins a thread of life on which birthdays (some more, some less solemnly celebrated) are strung like pearls on a necklace. 100 years of life – 100 birthday cakes that Ernestine bakes each year according to her mother's recipe as she searches for her place in the universe. At 18, Ernestine is convinced she'll find that place on a theater stage, far away from her tranquil hometown, but as the saying goes, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." Ernestine starts a family with her childhood sweetheart, experiences highs and lows, and ultimately finds herself reflected in the questions, wishes, and dreams of those who come after her.

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Birthday Candles

Theater Lübeck

Chekhov’s tragicomedy about a dysfunctional family and the country property they share has been a perennial favorite since it premiered in 1899 in Moscow. Schmidt’s translation highlights the humor in the conflict between two brothers – the one who left for the city, and the one who remained.

Uncle Vanya

The University of Michigan

In Verona, daily life is overshadowed by the (street) battles between two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The two patriarchs orchestrate this conflict from their back rooms, constantly fueling the violence. Their children and friends are also riddled with prejudice, making carefree celebration and freedom impossible. Despite their animosity, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and are swept into a maelstrom of hatred and violence that seals their fate. Directed by Charlotte Sprenger, who brings canonical literature into the present with her unique pop aesthetic, Shakespeare's classic becomes a visually stunning plea for the power of love in the face of brutality.

Romeo and Juliet: Tragedy by William Shakespeare

Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

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The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

Worldwide International Global Idiodrama is a duet in which Lies Pauwels and Willemijn Zevenhuijzen try to deal with the big outside world in which so much happens. From a safe haven on stage, they go on expedition and dive into the caverns of their boundless inner world to find answers. Sometimes by simply being silent and other times by dancing like an idiot. Yes! How about we do just that: lock up that mind! And then see what happens.

Worldwide International Global Idiodrama

Frascati - Amsterdam (NL)

Hetpaleis - Antwerp (BE)

Chassé Theater - Breda

Bronks - Brussel (BE)

Theater Antigone - Courtrai

Koninklijke Schouwburg - Den Haag (NL)

Spot - Groningen (NL)

Toneelschuur - Haarlem (NL)

Leidse Schouwburg - Leiden (NL)

Theater Rotterdam (NL)

Verkadefabriek

Theater Malpertuis - Tielt

As we hear their story, we’re transported back to a time when female pioneers defied expectations and soared through the skies.

Spitfire Girls

King's College, Cambridge

'Life in the countryside is wonderful,' or so they say—but not for Sonja and her Uncle Vanya. For 25 years, they have worked tirelessly to keep the family farm afloat, in part to support Sonja’s father, a professor living in the city. Now, having retired and fallen on hard times, he has moved to the farm with his much younger wife, Jelena—whose beauty proves a dangerous distraction for both Vanya and the doctor, Astrov.

The Royal Danish Theatre

Germany is debating inheritance tax. Everyone seems to agree that inheritance needs to be made fairer. But how? Munich-based author Nora Abdel-Maksoud has the solution! Every inheritance is collected by the state and redistributed via a lottery. A random system instead of an ovarian lottery! And what authority is better suited to administer this new inheritance bureaucracy than the German employment offices?! In the soon-to-be-completely overcrowded waiting areas, job seekers are asked to put their children in line for waiting tickets – they take up less space. And so, among playing children in waiting area C, disinherited start-up entrepreneur Silke meets Maude, a citizen's income recipient. An encounter with explosive potential. Clerk Gabor also discovers this when the two women storm his office armed with a remote detonator and threaten to blow up his beloved SUV if Silke doesn't get her inheritance back. Maude, on the other hand, simply wants to be able to collect deposit bottles without the money being deducted from her basic security as "income."

Jeeps

When Scottish warlord Macbeth meets three witches, they share a prophecy with him: he will become king. Driven by the prophecy – and incited by his wife Lady Macbeth – he murders the sitting king and seizes power for himself. But guilt and fear haunt Macbeth. Is he trapped in a nightmare of his own making?

Macbeth

'It would be a beautiful evening. One of those rare, still, warm summer nights, where everything seems to pause and hold its breath for a moment. Regitze could not have chosen a better evening for her party.'

Memories of a Marriage

The Royal Danish Playhouse

Sixteen Words takes us on the journey of Mona, a young journalist who, triggered by the loss of her grandmother, finds herself in an identity crisis and travels to Iran. This journey, which stretches from the familiar streets of Germany to the heart of Iran, is not only a farewell, but also a celebration of life and a shimmering self-reflection. It is an odyssey of self-discovery, artfully presented in sixteen chapters, each titled with a single Persian word that captures the essence of the story and defies translation.

Sixteen words

tif - Theater at the Fridericianum

Janik and Samuel are like brothers—inseparable, although they differ greatly in many ways. Janik's parents, academics with strong values, practically adopted Samuel because his mother struggles with alcoholism. While Samuel longs for a structured life and seeks stability, Janik takes the opposite path: He wants to break free from his parents' conservative norms and gets involved with Irene, Samuel's chaotic mother. To make a fresh start and save their friendship, the two travel to Istanbul after graduating from high school, because Samuel is certain that his unknown father is Turkish. A search for identity, home, and friendship begins.

Robber hands

Reithalle

When the farmer's daughter Emma marries the doctor Charles Bovary, she has high hopes for a new and exciting life. But everyday life quickly sets in and Emma feels locked into the pompous and predictable petit bourgeois lifestyle. She wants more! And she seeks excitement where it is offered: In cheesy novels, in the abundance of shops and in the allure of passion. But can she break free?

Madame Bovary

Dramaten

Virginia Woolf called it "the most boring novel in the world." Kurt Tucholsky compared this work to a Maggi bouillon cube that would be brewed mediocrely for generations.

Ulysses

Revolution. Rebellion. Uprising. And also comedy? It’s 1680 in Nuevo México and Indigenous brothers Ba'Homa and Feem Whim are living under Colonial Spanish occupation. When Ba'Homa proposes a Pueblo-led revolution against their oppressors, Feem Whim is skeptical, but they soon find themselves in the middle of the action. One, a budding revolutionary, the other a gay idealist, this quirky pair must grapple with their beliefs, their morality, and what it takes to survive. Both laugh-out-loud funny and profoundly moving, playwright Dillon Chitto's brilliant use of modern language and ideas brings this significant piece of history into today.

Pueblo Revolt 

Perseverance Theatre

UAA's Fine Arts Building

By Monica Isakstuen

What is love really? And how can it last?


She wants to save what once was, he thinks everything is fine the way it is. But what is love really? Like safe Mondays in November or burning like a new love? Monica Isakstuen's Han den andre is a hilarious, sensual and moving play about the sadness when laughter disappears and about the courage to start talking to each other again.

Around the characters Me and You dances a dazzling and provocative happy couple, He the other and She the other. Their life is like a movie: intense sex, spontaneous trips and Instagram-friendly breakfasts. The comparison is brutal.

With laughter, arguments and misunderstandings, everyday life is depicted where passion has gone up in smoke and where self-doubt creeps under the skin. Could life have been different?

He the other one

Little Scene

Kassel, 2006: Markus Zimmer died of multiple organ failure at the age of only 41. Friends and family could not save him from his addiction. A brilliant musician, a sensitive person, known for his style that subverted gender stereotypes, his extravagant lifestyle, and his music.

Welcome to THE BATES Motel (UA)

People of all ages wear their shirts, and their songs have become the soundtrack of entire generations: Nirvana. But what accounts for the enthusiasm for this band, even though it disbanded over thirty years ago? Not only the suicide of grunge star Kurt Cobain, but also the life and personality of the unforgettable Nirvana frontman still raise questions today: resignation or revolt? Angry outsider, highly sensitive artist, lifelong seeker? Drinks, drugs, and depression. Voice of Generation X, ally, feminist?

Come As You Are

Miss Julie was named the touring performance of the year by the Danish Theatre Associations in 2022 – a fantastic achievement by both the touring artists and the creative team behind the performance. They counted two debuts, namely Alban Lendorf's acting debut and Thure Lindhardt's directorial debut.

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LOD muziektheater

Spitfire Girls

Cambridge Arts Theatre

Uncle Vanya

Det Kongelige Teater

Jeeps

Theater Lübeck

Macbeth

Uppsala stadsteater

Memories of a Marriage

Det Kongelige Teater

Sixteen words

Staatstheater Kassel

Robber hands

Landestheater Coburg

Madame Bovary

Dramaten

Ulysses

Staatstheater Kassel

Pueblo Revolt

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.

He the other one

Göteborgs Stadsteater

Welcome to THE BATES Mote...

Staatstheater Kassel

Come As You Are

Theater Lübeck

Miss Julie

Bellevue Teatret