STORIES FROM EUROPE

Each of the institutions which take part in this 100% online festival has selected a production. Every evening from 7 pm until midnight, as of Wednesday, January 20th, a digital version will be available in streaming. All the shows will be accessible free of charge, and broadcast in their original language with English subtitles.

Visit the two platforms of our partners:

www.thalia-theater.de/en/lessingtage
www.dramaten.se/lessingtage

Stories from Europe, a platform of the European theatrical network mitos21, is co-produced by the Thalia Theater, Hamburg (Germany) and the Dramaten, Stockholm (Sweden).

Tonight, discover :

Friday, January 29

An Enemy of the People

Climate change remains our most urgent issue. But while the diagnosis is simple, the solution appears complicated. Last year’s Fridays for Future demonstrations where schoolchildren around the world gathered to protest against the climate emergency have not achieved the breakthrough that was hoped for. This protest is now taking on a new form. The bitter conflict between morality and financial interests is also described by Henrik Ibsen, whose drama An Enemy of the People is in no way inferior to contemporary discussions about the implementation of urgently needed measures to protect the environment. Director Volker Lösch and author Lothar Kittstein have therefore decided to over-write this environmental classic from 1882 for today’s stage. Inspired by young environmental activists from Düsseldorf and together with actors from the ensemble they examine the complex relationship between the climate crisis, resistance and defence of the status quo. The story is moved to – where else? – the "most beautiful city on the Rhine", whose Mayor has successfully secured subsidy for a new factory to build electronic cars…

airing Friday, January 29, 7:00 p.m. (CET) until midnight
in German with English subtitles
duration 1:50h

www.thalia-theater.de/en/lessingtage
www.dramaten.se/lessingtage

author Lothar Kittstein
director Volker Lösch
scenography and costumes Carola Reuther
choral director Sandra Bezler
video Robi Voigt
dramaturgy Janine Ortiz

with
Minna Wündrich
Glenn Goltz
Cennet Rüya Voß
Charlie Schrein
Claudia Hübbecker
Jonas Friedrich Leonhardi
Rainer Philippi
Philipp Alfons Heitmann

climate activists
Esra Atanasova, Nora Beisel, Lena Berghaus, René Boddice, Sara Lin Chen, Kester Elfroth, Nathanael Evers, Emma Fuhrmeister, Janna Gangolf, Sina Göttmann, Gesa van gen Hassend, Jan-Moritz Hoffmann, Greta Kolb, Oskar Lüttmann, Emilio Maestro, John-Frederik Reeg, Linus Reimann, Rebecca Roche, Juliane Sattler, Hanna Lei Shen

See the teaser of the festival here : 

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