An unsuccessful screenwriter with fantasies of running amok. A former drug dealer who has re-trained as an Internet troll. A professor’s daughter who converts to Islam, to her father’s despair. A drug-addicted pop star and his manager. A coke-sniffing trader, a homeless dog-lover with a great sense of justice and an unscrupulous film producer. A former porn actress and her transsexual boyfriend. A right-wing radical H&M sales assistant , a lonely civil servant, a sick wife-beater and a waitress with a talent for tattooing. These characters populate the life of Vernon Subutex, a bankrupt record dealer by trade without a roof over his head. The French writer, musician, and film director Virginie Despentes ( Baise Moi!, King Kong Theory ) gives them all a voice. They dream of a better life in very different ways. Vernon Subutex has been hailed as the social novel of our times, The Human Comedy (Balzac) of the 21st century. Director Stefan Pucher, who recently directed “América” by T.C. Boyle and “Wartesaal” at the Kammerspiele, brings Vernon Subutex and his gang to the stage of the Kammerspiele.

ATTENTION: strobe effects are used in this performance. Some frequncies might cause epileptic attacks.

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In "Farm Fatale" Philippe Quesne invokes the imagery of rural life. However, this place of longing is abandoned: the sounds of nature have faded away and the people are gone. Only five inventive scarecrows populate the stage, an initially blank page. As in a booklet, this desolate spot fills up and becomes the place of a new beginning. The scarecrows are archivists of the past and in search of possible worlds. Everything can become a protagonist here, even sounds or inconspicuous objects. The evening tells - as in a comic - pictures by pictures of an autonomous, solidarian community for which another world is possible. As in earlier works, Quesne combines humorous theater and visual arts and collages a revue of images. In addition to the work “Caspar Western Friedrich”, which was shown in the repertoire of the Münchner Kammerspiele, Philippe Quesne’s independent productions “Die Nacht der Maulwürfe” and “Crash Park – Life of an island” were also recently presented at Kammerspiele.

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In co-production with Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national.

“Love is a thing that just happens. Although you sometimes think it’s forbidden. Like in “Romeo and Juliet”. Here are two groups with clear associations and views are uncompromising and hostile. But here are two people who don’t care about all that. Origin, language, religion, gender... whatever. They courageously trust their feelings and mistrust everything that separates them. They only want one thing: to be together. Kammerklicke takes on the most famous lovers in the world, and interviews the playwright and itself: “Shakespeare, could you write a happy ending please?”

The three sisters Masja, Olga and Irina dream of leaving the Russian province for a more exciting life – “to Moscow!” Society is in upheaval, but the sisters are immobilised by the horror of their own mortality and the fear that their lives will stay the same. The future signifies great promise, although none of them knows what it will bring. Chekhov’s classic, the “Three Sisters”, has been staged since 1901 and often interpreted as symbolic of the decadence of pre-revolutionary bourgeois society. The sisters have performed many times, bearing witness to their longing to escape the present. “Is this now? – It’s a story that happened yesterday, but I know it’s tomorrow.”

Susanne Kennedy attempts to liberate the sisters and suggests a change of perspective: What if time is cyclical and we live every single moment of our lives over and over again? In Nietzsche, the idea of eternal recurrence means being constantly ready, or an absolute affirmation. Perhaps people are not in control of their own fates. Perhaps entirely different influences are involved. Nietzsche asks whether we would make other choices if we lived as if our lives were endlessly repeated – if we would be less influenced by the desire to control the future than by the desire for liberation.

ATTENTION: strobe effects are used in this performance. Some frequncies might cause epileptic attacks.

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After “Der Fall Meursault – Eine Gegendarstellung” and “Die Attentäterin”, Amir Reza Koohestani now stages a play central to the canon of Western theatre for the first time at the Münchner Kammerspiele: “Macbeth”. Shakespeare wrote this tragedy that revolves around a murderous royal couple more than 400 years ago as a piece of propaganda, which he intended at the time as confirmation of the king’s position (as well as his own). Koohestani takes this as the starting point for a reflection on contemporary expectations of theatre: Can political power relations still be strengthened or questioned today through fictional stories? Which stories must and which may be told? How innocent or dangerous is art, and how powerful are its narratives? In his approach to political issues, Koohestani always reflects the consequences for the people. Although trapped in a power structure, they still have to face the consequences of their own actions – whether insecure, committed, elated or traumatised. In private conversations and intimate moments, he creates an up-to-date political panorama, which also focuses on people’s everyday lives. “And if we fail?”, a sleepless Macbeth asks his wife and accomplice. “Then we fail”.

With the kind support of the Association of Friends of the Münchner Kammerspiele.

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Protest movements usually take place on the street. They are organised via the Internet, but what counts in the end is visibility on the street. If you follow current news reports, you find yourself asking: Will half of Europe soon be protesting? Demonstrations range from schoolchildren gathering across Europe to protest against climate change and lax environmental policies under the slogan #FridaysForFuture, to the gilet jaunes in France, a movement that has blurred the well-known political boundaries and unites citizens with very diverse attitudes. The protests largely originate from people who do not benefit from the ruling system, who are literally deprived of a future. But what about those on the other side, who keep capitalism alive and profit? The protagonist of the novel, investment banker Victor, is just such a person. He has it all, but he’s still not happy. Victor decides to act. He founds a populist movement and seeks his private salvation in political protest. Can the system destroy itself from the inside? How removed from reality is the German elite? Germany 2019: Do we need a fresh start?

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Lighting effects similar to stroboscope are in use during the performance.