Der Sturm, mein Lieblingswetter

In the organizer's words:

Magic play by William Shakespeare, in an adaptation by Ariane Koch

Based on the translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel & Caroline Schlegel-Schelling

From 15 years

Duration: approx. 2h 00, no intermission

Premiere
13.12.2024 Small house

The self and the other, civilization and repression, freedom and enslavement, power and its abuse: Shakespeare's last play brings together central themes of the present. Above all, however, it sketches a world on the border between dream and reality. In her adaptation for the Badisches Staatstheater, Ariane Koch sets the Shakespearean events in a female-dominated society. After a political coup by her sister that costs her her reign, Prosperunda, the powerful sorceress, is stranded on an island with her son Mir. Years later, with the help of the air spirit Ariel, she conjures up a storm that washes the new regent and the upper echelons of society onto the shore of the island. To set the story straight.

Ariane Koch writes plays and prose. Die toten Freunde (Dinosauriermonologe) was invited to the Autor:innentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2023. She received the aspekte literature prize in 2021 for her novel Die Aufdrängung.

Director Simone Blattner returns to the Staatstheater Karlsruhe for William Shakespeare's Zauberlustspiel, where she has already successfully staged Danton's Death. Other productions include the Residenztheater Munich, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Berliner Ensemble, Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Theater Neumarkt.