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Season Preview 21/22
Our season preview 20/21 is here! Schauspielhaus in-house directors Alexander Giesche, Suna Gürler, Trajal Harrell, Yana Ross, Christopher Rüping, Nicolas Stemann, Wu Tsang, and co-artistic director Benjamin von Blomberg will take you along into the productions of the new season in eight conversations.
We will start the new season on 10 September. We are planning 17 premieres, including a silent film accompanied by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZKO), two choreographies, a visual poem and three world premieres at the Pfauen and the Schiffbau and, for the first time, at the Kunsthalle Zürich. In addition, we are showing eleven productions as reruns.
We are very much looking forward to the opening premieres of Yana Ross (Kurze Interviews mit Fiesen Männern), Nicolas Stemann (Der Besuch der alten Dame) and Wu Tsang (Orpheus). Finally, these plans can be realised. Also Director Sebastian Nübling, choreographer Ives Thuwis and performers between the ages of 15 and 23 are now coming to Zurich with born to shine, and König der Frösche will hopefully celebrate its premiere after the first attempt was cancelled due to Corona.
At the end of the first half of the season, Christopher Rüping, together with Necati Öziri and eight composers around Black Cracker and Jonas Holle, will stage the correction of Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen. And Trajal Harrell will set a choreography in the Schiffbau-Halle for the first time with Monkey off My Back or the Cat's Meow - with the largest ensemble of his career: 17 dancers! Our Related Artists will take on Wilhelm Tell (Milo Rau) and Before the Sky Falls after Macbeth (Christiane Jatahy), Johan Simons presents King Lear in Zürich.
In the second half of the season, Alexander Giesche will transform Michael Ende's Momo into a visual poem, Suna Gürler will develop a new play together with Fatima Moumouni and Laurin Buser and tell the story of racism and police violence from different perspectives and experiences of Swiss youth, and Moby Dick will premiere at the Pfauen as a silent film with live orchestra.
You can find the entire programme of the new season on our 21/22 website!
All eight talks by our inhouse directors are published both in English and German in our Journal.
Till soon and best,
Your Schauspielhaus