00:00 h | 15. Feb 2013 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Version by Lyndsey Turner
German version by Gerhild Steinbuch
Premiered on February 15th, 2013.
A new mother travels from Berlin to the countryside with her baby, her husband and her nanny. She is suffering from post-natal depression, and has been persuaded to relocate to a remote villa for the good of her health. Installed in the attic room, with its natural daylight and fresh air, the woman ...
00:00 h | 14. Dec 2012 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiered on December 14th, 2012.
A group of intellectuals are bored while on summer holidays. Plagued by tedium, the doctors, lawyers and poets search for meaning in their affluent existence. Lawyer wife Varvara plays the Grande Dame while suffering silently under her childlessness. She has never felt desire for her bland husband, Basov but she brusquely rejects the love of her weltschmerz-philosophising ...
00:00 h | 25. Feb 2012 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Benjamin refuses to take part in school swimming lessons. His mother suspects drugs, but the real reason
is something else: Benjamin has religious feelings. He begins to study the Bible and to terrorise his fellow
pupils and teacher.
00:00 h | 21. May 2011 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
German translation by Andrea Clemen
Premiere: may 21st, 2011
A farmer lies sick and shackled to his bed. While his farm decays, his young wife and especially his farm-hand exploit his helpless state to their advantage. The farm-hand Nikita begins an affair with his retarded daughter. The farmer’s second wife, Anisja, purchases poison in order to hasten his demise, her greatest fear being, however ...
00:00 h | 21. Nov 2010 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiere: November 20th, 2010
A couple, Eva and Robert, come home after a holiday. The plants look mysteriously different and a letter informs them of the disconnection of their electricity supply. Enter Judith and Sebastian, friends of the couple, who were meant to have taken care of things in their absence. However, they turn out to be the rightful occupants and throw Eva and Robert unceremoniously ...
00:00 h | 06. Mar 2009 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
World Premiere
sponsored by Kulturstiftung des Bundes within the frame of »60 Jahre Deutschland. Annäherung an eine unbehagliche Identität«.
Premiere: march 6th, 2009
»I want to run away,« are Robert’s first words in the play »The Doves« and they hold true for its protagonist in two ways: Robert Bertrand wants to run away from the office Christmas party and, as he points out to his junior assistant ...
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