BUNBURY - ERNST SEIN IST ALLES!

In the organizer's words:

What if you could be someone else for a day? Someone who lives free from the constraints of the bourgeois norm? In order to escape their social obligations, always in pursuit of pleasure, the two friends Jack and Algernon each invent an alternative identity: while Jack regularly travels to the city as his party-loving brother "Ernst", Algernon uses his invented sick friend "Bunbury" so that he can go to the country.Opposite them are Algernon's cousin Gwendolen, whose hand "Ernst" alias Jack is asking for, and Jack's ward Cecily, who is immensely interested in Jack's stories about his 'bad', party-loving brother "Ernst". Both women couldn't imagine anything better than marrying a man called Ernst: "That name triggers such a feeling of security." When Algernon then visits Jack in the country and pretends to be his brother "Ernst", the interplay of seriousness and unseriousness is set in motion.

Oscar Wilde was one of the first dandies to confront Victorian society with its buttoned-up nature, eloquently and flamboyantly dressed. He celebrated the beautiful, wild and queer life, for which he was ultimately sentenced to two years in prison and died impoverished and ill in Paris shortly afterwards. Inspired by the biography of the Irish author and his penchant for pleasure and glamor, the team led by director Sebastian Schug brings the comedy to the big stage.

Including introduction 30 minutes before the start of the performance