ROMEO UND JULIA

In the organizer's words:

ROMEO AND JULIET
by William Shakespeare

Premiere May 16, 2025

Residence Theater

In cooperation with the Deutsches Theatermuseum Munich.

In what is supposedly the most romantic play by the linguistic genius Shakespeare, it is not so much the tongue as the blade that speaks on Verona's streets. There is war. Although the Prince has declared a truce between the feuding Montague and Capulet clans, the slightest provocation is enough to cause more deaths. Only the youngest offspring of the hostile families find a new language beyond the weapons, and a unique one at that: "Hate rages here, but love rages more", Romeo and Juliet counter their relatives' war, even if only secretly at first. From the very beginning, the tender poetry of seduction also resonates with the utopia that this love could bring peace beyond one's own happiness.

In complete contrast to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", which was probably written at the same time, night is the hour of true feelings here, the moment when masks fall and names and origins no longer count for anything. Even if Shakespeare ultimately does not allow his lovers to survive the lark's song, he uses her example to show that it is possible to end the fighting.

For in-house director Elsa-Sophie Jach, her production is about the spaces allocated not only to the opposing houses, but also fundamentally to the sexes in this play about love and death.

"Little is what it claims to be in the theater's most famous love story, least of all the people. Their language is ambiguous, disreputable, overflowing, beautiful. They themselves are driven, unstoppable, unconditional. Is it hate or love that drives people, or is it greed? And is it still possible to pause, to reach an understanding in a state of reeling? Often, when people are very close to death, they become very cheerful, says Romeo, they call it the flash before death." Elsa-Sophie Jach

Price information:

10 € for pupils, students, trainees and volunteers up to 30 years of age