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What is wrong with the world? What is wrong with us, its restless inhabitants? Elfriede Jelinek’s new play deals with nothing less than the relationship of humans with the world and vice versa. With anger, sadness, desperation, but also tenderness and humour, she describes a difficult relationship. Jelinek provides answers: In her precise and inexorable analysis, she describes a path that has no way out, only an end. She re-shapes god and reduplicates the earth, she develops fantasies about the body, about work and nature. In her production, director Lilja Rupprecht will investigate whether it may be worthwhile to explore the darkness instead of despairing in the light. 

Already in 2019, the Cretan choreographer Andonis Foniadakis enchanted the audience in Hanover with the athletic dance language of his ballet Kosmos: With great virtuosity, he explores the dancers’ movement spectrum, creating such a fascinating, electrifying atmosphere that the entire space seems to crackle with concentrated dance energy. Icarus, a character from Greek mythology, embodies the yearning of mankind to rise beyond their limitations. His story, where he is given wings and flies too close to the sun, only to fall and fail, has inspired the imagination of humanity since its beginnings. In dance, Foniadakis is driven by the same question as the eponymous character Icarus: How close can you get to the sun without burning?

Two teenagers madly in love with each other, an irresolvable social conflict that separates them, a sleeping draught that is meant to be their salvation and ends up bringing death – Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all times. The opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi tells the story from its Italian sources and with a fresh perspective: It focusses on the final 24 hours in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, whose name is Giulietta in this version, and on the constraints of Giulietta’s home life. Grand emotions unfold: With its cuttingly sweet arias and songs, the story gets deeper under our skins than any Shakespearean line.

Just bring your friends along on your next theatre visit! In addition to each full-price ticket, you can purchase up to five discounted tickets. This applies to selected performances of Staatstheater Hannover.