Theatre

Oskar Matzerath has barely been born when he recognises the world to be a universal disaster – and rejects it entirely. Only the tin drum promised to him by his mother offers him an acceptable perspective... more

Barrie Kosky transforms Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Threepenny Opera" into a big-city ballad about people seeking happiness in a functional, sober world. more

A Shakespeare play is performed without a director and with just one rehearsal. This results in a very free-form, wild performance in which the actors rely on themselves, one another and the audience –... more

The Genre Braid You choose the genre, we build the story.  We start with a simple story. Then, like a puzzle piece we take one of the characters and continue their story in a different genre. From there... more

“Lights Up!” – the brand-new, completely improvised musical in two acts – as unpredictable as it is unforgettable! Inspired solely by suggestions from the audience, the ensemble weaves a hilarious story... more

The Globe Ensemble Berlin brings Shakespeare's most frequently performed tragedy to the stage in the best folk theater tradition. more

“To understand the world we live in, we have to know how we love – because if we know how we love, we understand how we can save the world.” more

The termination of a pregnancy is a very private but also a highly political decision. "Happening" by Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the unsparing account of an illegal abortion... more

Artistic Team Florentina Holzinger – Direction, Choreography, Performance Born In Flamez, Gibrana Cervantes, Stefan Schneider – Musical Direction Born In Flamez, Gibrana Cervantes, Josephinex Ashley... more

With Balkan Erotic Epic, performance icon Marina Abramović returns to her roots – transforming Balkan myths into a rapturous ritual of body, shame and life force. An intense invocation of the erotic as... more

MAMI tells of mothers, of closeness and separation, of what is passed on. In a wordless, ritual visual theatre, Mario Banushi shapes personal memory into an intense experience between birth, desire and... more