Romeo & Juliet

Revival premiere: 11. August 2022, 19:30 

by William Shakespeare

The Globe Ensemble Berlin brings Shakespeare's most frequently performed tragedy to the stage in the best folk theater tradition: the most famous love story is told through richness of language and live music, with masquerade and fight scenes and in its own translation that is both fresh and poetic. A young love full of passion and fire meets old hatred of two rival families. The themes of young love, old hatred, rivalry, passion, fear of loss, power and powerlessness, willingness to take risks, civil courage and ultimately the question of the meaning of human existence in the face of death run through a web of unfortunate coincidences. Only in the death of the two lovers does the hatred, which has almost become a tradition, come to an end and Romeo & Juliet become martyrs in a senseless war.

 

FEATURING:	 
EMMA, GREGOR, CHOR	ASTRID KÖHLER
MERCUTIO, BALTHASAR, APOTHEKER, CHOR	BENJAMIN KRÜGER
JULIA, SAMSON, CHOR	JANNINA KROSCHEL
ROMEO, ABRAHAM, CHOR	ADRIAN STOWASSER
BENVOLIO, PARIS, CHOR	CLAUS BLOCHBERGER
TYBALT, PIERO, CHOR	PHILIPP MYK
LORENZO, LORD MONTAGUE, CHOR	CHRISTIAN LEONARD
LADY CAPULET, CHOR	WIEBKE ACTON
 	 
DIRECTOR, TRANSLATION, PLAY VERSION:	CHRISTIAN LEONARD
DRAMATURGY, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CHOIRS:	JOSEPHINE TIETZE
MUSIC:	BERND MEDEK
COSTUMES:	PETRA WILKE
STAGE DESIGN:	THOMAS LORENZ-HERTING
ASSISTANCE STAGE DESIGN, MASK BUILDING:	KATHARINA PIRIWE
CHOREOGRAPHY:	GABRIELA DUMITRESCU
FIGHT SCENES:	LUKAS BENJAMIN ENGEL
MAKE UP:	JOSEPHINE MÜLLER | KATHARINA BUCCARELLO

 

 Pressestimmen

"… und zeigt dabei, wie er (Christian Leonard) Theater versteht: volksnah, kulissenarm und fantasiereich. (…) Gleichwohl ist die Inszenierung im besten Sinne altmodisch, kein Regietheater, sondern ein der Story verpflichtetes sinnliches Spektakel. (…) Shakespeare zeigt sich also erneut hochaktuell."

Friedhelm Teicke, zitty Magazin am 18.6.2019

 

"Es zeigt sich eine schnörkellose Leonard-Inszenierung. Die acht Ensemble-Mitglieder stürzen sich auf fast leerer Bühne ins pralle Volkstheater, es gibt Musik auf Akustikgitarren und Harfen, pointierte Wortspiele, stark choreographierte Stock- und Schwertkampfszenen, für die sich die Schauspielschule mal gelohnt hat."

Patrick Wildermann, Der Tagesspiegel am 3.6.2019

 

"As the titular couple, Maximilian Wrede and Nadja Schimonsky head up a talented and energetic cast. (…) this production punches considerably above its weight, putting other productions of Shakespeare’s classics at larger, better-funded theatres to shame. (…) this production certainly whips up an appetite for more."

Paul Sharratt, ExBerliner on September 10, 2019

 

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