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Directed by Alexander Vaassen | With Nicole Kersten, Antonia Kallinowski and Stefanie Winner

Premiere February 07, 2026

Richard III is one of the most fascinating and sinister villainous characters in world literature. Shakespeare's most famous royal drama is a masterful psychogram of evil and at the same time a showpiece in the analysis of power and manipulation. By allowing not only the insidious title character, who walks over dead bodies in the service of gaining power, but also the people around him to have their say, Shakespeare dissects the disastrous political dynamics that make the rise of a nefarious careerist seem inevitable. However, there is another menacing uncertainty hanging over the events: is a society even capable of regulating the elemental force of evil, which apparently reawakens with disturbing reliability after long periods of stability and peace? In his first work at the Theater im Bauturm, director Alexander Vaassen will not only shed light on the social contexts that make Richard's transgressive behavior possible, but also pose a much more fundamental question: Why does evil keep returning?

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