Romeo und Julia

In the organizer's words:

Probably the most tragic love story of all time (even before "Titanic"!) is quite rightly regarded as the most popular and most frequently performed play by the author William Shakespeare. The plot about two feuding families living in Verona - the Montagues and the Capulets - and the young people from one of the two families, Juliet and Romeo, who fall madly in love with each other, is correspondingly well-known. A love that defies all conventions and prohibitions, naive and genuine - in a world full of hatred and war.

Director Sophia Aurich tackles this great material with her own unique and subtle feel for the complexity of the characters. Without deconstructing the works, she manages to build a bridge to the present day in her productions and place them in the context of current issues.

Nothing but the plain truth: Shakespeare was not only an author, but also an actor. He acted in many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights. | Shakespeare is the second most quoted English writer after the translators of the Bible. | Shakespeare was a great fan of Homer, the Greek father of epic poetry, and also admired Chaucer's works. Several of Chaucer's poems thus became sources for his plays: For example, "Parliament of Fowls" was a source for Mercutio's dream of Queen Mab in "Romeo and Juliet". | Shakespeare introduced almost three thousand words into the English language. Various estimates of his vocabulary range from seventeen thousand to an incredible ninety thousand words!

Note: This production uses strobe lighting.