Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

So fast does beauty end in confusion.

William Shakespeare's «A Midsummer Night's Dream» is an unholy confusion of emotions. Nothing is left out here, everything is played out to the end: from love at first sight, the promise of eternal fidelity, to animalistic desire, raging jealousy and vile betrayal - sometimes highly comical, sometimes deeply tragic. Shakespeare skilfully combines three different storylines in his most famous and at the same time most abysmal comedy. On the one hand, there is the almost hopeless emotional chaos between the two lovers at the Athenian court, where somehow everyone loves everyone and yet does not love anyone, then the dark marital quarrel between Titania and Oberon in the fairy and spirit world of the forest and finally the desperate efforts of a local amateur group to rehearse a play. The only one who holds the threads of the plot in his hand and weaves them together in the most ingenious way is one of Shakespeare's most famous theatre characters: Puck. A troll, with a devilish delight in chaos, who alone decides who does it with whom, when, where and how.

In his staging, Stephan Kimmig relocates the action from ancient Athens to the present day. His lovers don't get lost in a forest, but in the wilderness of the big city. Just like Shakespeare, Kimmig's characters are searching for love, their sexuality and their identity. Driven by their feelings, they lose themselves in the beat and drug frenzy of the club night, only to find themselves in the end.