The Dresden Staatsschauspiel has announced 23 premieres for the coming season, including six world premieres. The 2024/2025 season begins with "Nathan the Wise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, "a lesson in Enlightenment tolerance, a piece of utopia", as Artistic Director Joachim Klement said on Tuesday at the presentation of the program. The new program stands for "countering resentment and fear and standing up for an open and diverse society".
The opening weekend (7 and 8 September) will also see the world premiere of "Droge Faust" - a production by the Bürgerbühne, which has a new director in Christiane Lehmann. In the play, young people take a critical look at society's relationship to drug use.
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Semperoper Ballett, its new director Kinsun Chan will present "Wonderful World", a contemporary dance theater with links to drama, according to Klement. The Staatsschauspiel is also staging three works by Shakespeare: "The Winter's Tale", "What You Will" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". From November, "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen will be performed as a family play. Female perspectives are strongly represented in the season, including in the productions "Im Spiegelsaal" based on a graphic novel by Liv Strömquist, the Bürgerbühne project "Klassenbeste" and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. For the "Fast Forward" festival, the Staatsschauspiel is once again inviting young theater makers from Europe to Dresden for four days.
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