Ein Sommernachtstraum - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ein Sommernachtstraum
Date:
Time:
Price class:
Location:
25.11.2024 , Monday
19:30
B
Burgtheater, Universitätsring 2, 1010 Vienna
Seating plan
The night begins when a father threatens to kill his daughter. This drives two lovers into the Athenian forest, where they are bewitched by gender-indecipherable elves, so that each loves another. Craftsmen are also out in the forest to rehearse a tragedy involving a lion that is not to be feared. And the royal couple of the elves quarrel over an Indian boy and cause the rivers to overflow their banks...
The 400-year history of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM has something to tell us about our troubled present. The climate catastrophes of that time, the defense of patriarchal systems of rule against gender-fluid identities and even trigger warnings in the theater are part of Shakespeare's most-performed comedy. But it is also a timeless piece about play and the power of transformation. In the Athenian Forest, one person's dream becomes another's nightmare. Shakespeare evokes a nocturnal state of mind in which people no longer trust each other and begin to question feelings and certainties. They experience all varieties of love and struggle for their language. At the end of the extravagant fantasy night, the lovers wake up ashamed from the “alternative world” of Athens. But not all are turned back. The magic of the theater lives on with hope.
Subject to change.
The 400-year history of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM has something to tell us about our troubled present. The climate catastrophes of that time, the defense of patriarchal systems of rule against gender-fluid identities and even trigger warnings in the theater are part of Shakespeare's most-performed comedy. But it is also a timeless piece about play and the power of transformation. In the Athenian Forest, one person's dream becomes another's nightmare. Shakespeare evokes a nocturnal state of mind in which people no longer trust each other and begin to question feelings and certainties. They experience all varieties of love and struggle for their language. At the end of the extravagant fantasy night, the lovers wake up ashamed from the “alternative world” of Athens. But not all are turned back. The magic of the theater lives on with hope.
Subject to change.