Nora Schlocker
Born in Rum, Austria, in 1983, Nora Schlocker trained as a theatre director at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst «Ernst Busch» in Berlin. From 2008 to 2011 she was Resident Director at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and from 2011 to 2014 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. She also created works at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Vienna Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart State Theatre, the Residenztheater, Centraltheater Leipzig, Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Deutsches Theater Berlin and Staatsschauspiel Dresden. She became Resident Director at Theater Basel in 2015. Here her productions included world premieres of two plays by Ewald Palmetshofer: «Edward II. I am Love» after Christopher Marlowe, a co-production with the Vienna Schauspielhaus and the Wiener Festwochen, which was invited to the Swiss Theatertreffen in 2016, and «Before Sunrise» after Gerhart Hauptmann, which was invited to the 43rd Mülheimer Theatertagen and the Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2018.
She has been Resident Director at the Residenztheater since the 2019/2020 season.
Productions
With her great monologue «Anne-Marie the Beauty», the internationally most-performed contemporary playwright Yasmina Reza has written an eulogy to the art of acting, at the centre of which an almost-diva speaks out against her insignificance without dot or comma: Robert Dölle in a humorous and touching play-within-a-play.
Anne-Marie die Schönheit (Anne-Marie the beauty)
Intrigues, conspiracies, political intrigues - Schiller's tragedy depicts the power struggle between the English Queen Elizabeth I and the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart. But what if only chance decides between power and powerlessness? Then the roles could also be «swapped». For each performance, a draw is held to decide which of the two actresses will play the victor or the vanquished.
Maria Stuart
Tessa Ensler is a successful lawyer whose supreme discipline is the defence of defendants in sexual assault cases. Then she herself is raped - by a colleague. She reports him and is now on the other side of the cross-examination - as the victim. With «Prima Facie», Suzie Miller gives a voice to millions of women who suffer violence worldwide.
Prima Facie