Bamberg: The program of the 38th Bavarian Theater Days – Munich

The slapstick production “Cyrano de Bergerac” with Vincent Glander at the Residenztheater has been invited to the Bavarian Theater Days.

(Photo: Birgit Hupfeld)

Memmingen was just unlucky. For two years – 2020 and 2021 – the local Landestheater Schwaben tried to host the 37th Bavarian Theater Days, twice it failed due to the pandemic. Now it’s Bamberg’s turn with the 38th edition of the festival, to which productions from all over Bavaria have been invited. The Bavarian Theater Days are a kind of state industry show at which a specialist jury selects productions from city and state theaters and also a few independent theaters in a short period of time. From May 13th to 28th, 25 productions from 15 cities are to be shown in Bamberg. Venue is the ETA Hoffmann Theater.

This will also open the Theater Days with its own production: The playwright Theresia Walser was commissioned with a text entitled “A New Play”. Director Sibylle Broll-Pape will stage the world premiere. As a result, a mixture of novel adaptations, contemporary and classic pieces as well as projects that deal with socio-political issues can be seen – in this respect, an absolutely representative cross-section. For example, the Staatstheater Augsburg is present with “The Sound of Rain”, a tentative grandmother-grandson story set against the background of the genocide in Namibia and the National Socialist era. The novel adaptation “Die Wand” comes from the Kleines Theater Landshut, a solo play with actress Julia Koschitz. Productions from the Metropoltheater, Volkstheater and Residenztheater arrive from Munich. The latter is represented, for example, with the slapstick “Cyrano de Bergerac”. As a free production, Susanna Curtis from Nuremberg, among others, was invited to dementia patients with her dance piece “Butterfly Brain”.

Theater: In the digital program: the chamber play production "We blacks have to stick together" with Nancy Mensah Offei.

Included in the digital program: the chamber play production “We Blacks Must Stick Together” with Nancy Mensah-Offei.

(Photo: Thomas Aurin/Kammerspiele Munich)

The evening program is flanked by four productions for children and young people from Valley, Nuremberg and Coburg. And there is also a small digital program. The collective punktlive is there. It became known with “werther.live”, a social media production. The successor “möwe.live”, co-produced with the Staatstheater Nürnberg, has now been invited. When it comes to digital formats, the flagship theater for virtual reality theatres, the Augsburg State Theater, should not be missing (invited: “Oleanna” and “14 Curtains”). And the Munich Kammerspiele will also be there digitally in Bamberg, with the video installation “The Shire” and the excellent live stream “We Blacks have to stick together” by Jan-Christoph Gockel. All in all: a compact, solid program.

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