The festival runs from June 19 to 25, 2026, at the Marstall of the Residenztheater. It opens with “Hamlet. AI” by American Michael Yates Crowley, who combines classic theater material with artificial intelligence.
A highlight is the collaborative piece “The Crying Child,” which involved authors from Georgia, Chile, Israel, Lithuania, the USA, Iran, Ukraine, India, and Argentina. It will be shown in German on June 24 and 25. Chief dramaturge Almut Wagner explained that the festival’s goal is a shift in perspective: “To question one’s own actions in an interesting way.”
Two guest performances round out the program: the Haraki Theater from Tbilisi presents “Iokaste: Raw Material” by Mariam Megvinyte, and from Warsaw comes “Cosmic Home” by Lithuanian Birutė Kapustinskaitė. The festival is funded by two foundations and the Friends of the Residenztheater.
Source: www.sueddeutsche.de
