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In the organizer's words:

William Shakespeare
German by Thomas Brasch; play with music

Two dukes, two noble daughters, two young noblemen, two fools and two shepherds - that's all Shakespeare's most profound romantic comedy needs. The stage becomes a playground for love and life plans, a parallel world in which social norms and values are suspended and the dictates of "normality" evaporate. A utopia? Rosalind flees from the wrath of the tyrannical duke to the Forest of Arden with her cousin and the Fool, disguised as a man. Orlando, in love, must also leave the kingdom and meets his disguised Rosalind in the forest, but he does not recognize her.

For Rosalind, this is a unique opportunity to put his feelings to the test. An ever faster-spinning round dance of inflamed hearts ensues, between infatuation and melancholy, the constraints of reality dissolve.

"For a brief moment, everything in the forest of Arden becomes suspended. Seriousness becomes play and vice versa. Who is man and why woman? And what happens when I am both, when the boundaries dissolve? The play asks me: where am I free, where am I not?"

Christian Schlüter, director