TIRESIAS

Music Theater after Francis Poulenc

© Murat Aslan – Zwei Tauben auf einer Betonmauer, im Hintergrund unscharfe Stadtansicht mit Gebäuden und Fernsehturm.

The country needs new children. Smart, beautiful, productive children. As close to perfect as possible – to clean up the mess their parents left behind. They’re supposed to save the future and keep the pension system afloat.

In Poulenc’s musical theatre piece Les mamelles de Tirésias, Thérèse rebels against the obsession with reproduction, opts out and calls for revolution. In this land of unlimited possibilities, Thérèse can transform herself: her body is just a replaceable shell, allowing her to slip out of society’s expectations. The job of repopulating the country is now left to a handful of men. But they’re easily sidetracked – by absurd ideas, pointless bets, a pixelated penguin on Herrmannplatz and the unsolicited wisdom of Berlin’s city pigeons.

WITH Alexander Biernoth, Hanna Hábetler, Oukai Liu, Carlo Schmitz, Moritz Schumeda, Sara Wijlaars

MUSICAL DIRECTION Yueyue Gu STAGE DIRECTION Marlene Schleicher STAGE AND VIDEO Kasia Suchenko COSTUME Annika Konitzki SOUND DESIGN Paulina Kiss DRAMATURGY Peri Nuranikhoshkhow

Bachelor graduation production of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 05/November/2026 20:00 ( 2 more dates )
• Venue Neuköllner Oper
• Address Karl-Marx-Straße 131, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln