Tips for the 2024 / 25 theater season in Hanover
We're all feeling it right now - winter is coming to an end, the days are getting longer and the first rays of spring are awakening our anticipation for something new. 🌸 So why not make the most of the last chilly evenings and choose a theater seat instead of the sofa? 🎭
Because the stages in Hanover also have a lot to offer in spring! Thrilling dramas, humorous comedies or exciting productions - there's something exciting to discover for everyone!
The diversity of Hanover's theaters is unique: the Schauspielhaus, the State Opera or the small, cozy stages such as the Theater an der Glocksee and the Theater am Küchengarten - the new 2024/25 season surprises with an exciting mix of classics and fresh, modern plays. ✨
So, what are you waiting for? Your spring theater experience awaits! 🌟
UNAUTHORIZED & UNVERSCHÄMT
The play Unauthorized & Unverschämt by Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen sheds light on German post-war history from a Black perspective. It focuses on the lives of Afro-Germans who were born to Black US soldiers and white German mothers. Through archival work and interviews, the play shows their experiences of marginalization, institutional racism and forced separation from their families. At the same time, it tells of resistance and community building. The production combines historical research with current debates on identity and racism to make an often overlooked chapter of German history visible.
un.learn - Gastspiel von Mathis Dieckmann
As a criminal defense lawyer, Tessa Ensler is unbeatable. Every day she defends men who are on trial for sexual assault. Tessa has made use of the system: she knows how best to get ahead. However, after experiencing an assault by a colleague herself, Tessa questions everything she has believed in up to that point. She now has to go to the other side of the courtroom and testify as a witness for the prosecution. Can victims of violence ever get justice in a system made by men for men? Through her award-winning monologue, author Suzie Miller gives voice to a woman who refuses to be intimidated and fights on.
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Bellini's opera tells the tragic love story of Romeo and Giulietta, who are torn between family feuds and deep feelings. With elegant melodies and demanding vocal parts, Bellini transforms the conflict into a lyrical masterpiece that combines emotional depth and musical brilliance.
HADES - Luana Rossetti
"HADES" is an impressive solo dance performance that explores the boundaries between the body, society and inner truth. Choreographer and performer Luana Rossetti invites the audience to embark on a powerful journey through the contradictions of femininity, power and personal transformation.
Echo 72. Israel in München
The play deals with the attack on the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, which cost the lives of eleven Israeli athletes. It sheds light on the failure of the security forces and German guilt, combines lightness with chaos and impressively shows how the ghosts of the past still have an effect today.
ZEITENWENDE
18-year-old Doris wants to become a "glamour" and stop working in the provinces as a secretary to a pushy lawyer. So she moves to Berlin and experiences the frenzy of the late Golden Twenties. Doris strives for independence and fame, but repeatedly comes up against the boundaries of convention. She gets involved in affairs and tries to launch a stage career, but nothing works out. The dark side of the metropolis awaits Doris, as does the promise of fame and glamor. Keun was an enormous success with the public when it was first published in 1932. Today, Das kunstseidene Mädchen with its self-confident protagonist is one of the classics of modern literature. Director Luise Voigt will bring the contradictions and glitter of the big city to the stage in Hanover in a visually stunning way.
FEMME WITH GUN – Ein Rave für den Widerstand
How should one live with the knowledge that where love lives, violence is also at home? War, assault and powerlessness are the beginning of a story that tells of a rift in the world. The estate of the Marquise of O... is attacked. She is threatened, but a captain from the ranks of the enemy rescues her. Weeks later, she is plagued by malaise and a premonition. After several examinations, it is clear that she is pregnant - without knowing how or by whom. Kleist places his characters on a stretched bed of sensations: Fact and consciousness tear at them. The self, the other, the world - everything seems to be in question.
Tosca
Puccini's Tosca is a gripping drama full of passion, intrigue and violence. The opera tells the story of the singer Tosca, her lover Cavaradossi and the unscrupulous Scarpia. Love, deceit and power struggles culminate in murder and death. Puccini captivates his audience with shocking realism and gripping music.
A SECOND BEFORE AWAKENING - COMMEDIA FUTURA
A Second Before Awakening takes us into a surreal world between memory, present and future. The piece explores the fragility of life, the urge for expression and eternal falling. Different perspectives interweave to create a celebration of diversity that invites the audience to discover their own paths.
MAKING OF A MAN
MAKING OF A MAN uses dance, media art and humor to explore how masculinity is constructed and which role models shape our world. Between pop culture, politics and personal stories, the performance questions rigid masculinity norms and searches for new, more fluid forms of coexistence.
Agrupación Señor Serrano: Una isla
An AI designs a new world - but who is allowed to exist in it? Agrupación Señor Serrano creates a visually stunning performance with holograms and AI-generated texts. Between utopia and chaos, the piece explores the relationship between man and machine - with humor, speed and a pinch of loss of control.
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