Theater in Munich: The best of the current season

Heroes' Square
Premiere on 4.12.2021Anew play based on Thomas Bernhard celebrates its premiere at the Kammerspiele in a version with new texts by Falk Richter. "Heldenplatz" deals with a society increasingly permeated by anti-Semitism and misanthropy, in which you have to ask yourself when it's time to leave.Jepps
Premiere on 21.11.2021"Jepps" is a comedy in three acts by playwright Nora Abdel-Maksoud that deals with the topic of inheritance. In Germany, up to 400 billion euros are inherited every year. The play plays with the idea of what would happen if this money were radically redistributed.

Our flesh our blood
Premiere on 16.10.2021"Our Flesh Our Blood" is a play by Jessica Glause and ensemble about German meat consumption and is certainly not for the faint-hearted. The director uses interviews with people who work in slaughterhouses to create an evening against repression. Can consumers have any influence at all in the cycle of our neoliberal system? cloud*s*scape
Premiere on 19.11.2021Atrap opera by Tobias Frühauf awaits you atthe Volkstheater: "cloud*s*scape". In it, a group of climate activists fight to transform the energy of their founding phase into sustainable improvements for the future. Although they are now publicly appreciated by the Ministry of the Future, it remains empty words, even though the next tipping point is within reach.

God
Premiere on 23.07.2021Inhis new play "God", author and lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach tackles the controversial topic of euthanasia. The protagonist Elisabeth Gärtner - a retired architect - has only one wish left: she wants to die, but she is denied a drug that would allow her to go to her own death. Hamlet
Premiere on 13.05.2021In"Hamlet", Shakespeare transforms the Nordic Hamlet saga from the Middle Ages into a play about succession, doubts about the immortality of the royal body and its supposed connection to the state. Robert Borgmann stages Shakespeare's masterpiece as a visually stunning and highly musical meditation on the mortality of man.

The Magic FluteAtthe Bavarian State Opera, you can see a German opera in two acts: "The Magic Flute". Mozart's Christmas classic is about the legacy of the Sun King. The Queen of the Night and her daughter Pamina do not want to submit to the leadership of the wise men around Sarastro, contrary to the wishes of the deceased king. She strives to regain the sevenfold circle of the sun for herself and thus power.the snowstorm
Premiere on 17.04.2021TheBayerisches Staatsballett's resident choreographer Andrey Kaydanovskiy translates Alexander Pushkin's story The Snow storm into a contemporary ballet language. Here's the story: young Marja, who comes from a good family, falls in love with the poor ensign Vladimir, much to the displeasure of her parents.