Ein Sommernachtstraum

Ballet by Juliano Nunes based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare | Music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Samuel Barber and others.

Duration: 2 hours | one intermission | ages 14 and up

The law rules at the Athenian court. Fathers rule over daughters. Reason over emotion. But beyond the palace walls, the forest begins - and with it a different reality. For over 400 years, Shakespeare's comedy has explored what happens when order meets chaos. Love as an irrational force. Identity as a fluid game. Nature as a mirror of inner abysses.

How deep into the forest do we dare to go? The further the lovers penetrate, the more what seemed solid dissolves. The forest becomes the unconscious. It is the realm of Puck, Oberon, Titania - their shadows disappear between the trees. Desire. Intoxication. Transformation - what seems tamed in palaces is free here. The boundary between dream and reality disappears. The feud of the fairy monarchy breaks through the human façade as an inner conflict. What was hidden becomes visible. What seemed controlled slips away.

Juliano Nunes, known for his work at the Royal Ballet London, the Mariinsky Theater, the American Ballet Theatre and the Nederlands Dans Theater, transforms Shakespeare's play into a journey through layers of consciousness. Together with set designer Youssef Hotait, he creates a space in which Apollonian order and Dionysian chaos collide. What is waiting in the dark? And what must come to light so that we can wake up in the morning?

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