Overview
- Running May 23 to June 21, the festival opens at the Thalia Theater with Vladimir Sorokin’s Der Schneesturm in Kirill Serebrennikov’s staging, a co-production of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Salzburg Festival.
- Each invited production is scheduled for two consecutive performances across city stages, with the Helmut Schmidt Auditorium at Bucerius Law School joining as a first-time venue to host Peter Weiss’s Die Ermittlung.
- Evgeny Titov’s Richard III from Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus trims Shakespeare’s play to one third of its length and features André Kaczmarczyk in the title role.
- Burgtheater Wien brings Ayad Akhtar’s Der Fall McNeal, which probes creativity and artificial intelligence with Joachim Meyerhoff and Felix Kammerer, and Max Simonischek’s solo staging of Kafka’s Der Bau at St. Pauli Theater.
- Additional entries include the Berliner Ensemble’s Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe with Stefanie Reinsperger and Kathleen Morgeneyer, Elsa-Sophie Jach’s Romeo und Julia from Residenztheater München, and Jens Harzer performing Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis directed by Oliver Reese.