The Directors Talk
About Season 22/23

Trajal Harrell talks about his production The House of Bernarda Alba that will open the upcoming season at Pfauen, and The Romeo, his second work of the 22/23 season centered around the "utopian idea" of a dance that people of all origins, genders and generations, of all tempers and moods, perform when they have left their tragedies behind and are just dancing.

Nicolas Stemann on Oedipus Tyrann, a work he will stage together with the two actors Alicia Aumüller und Patrycia Ziółkowska, on the world premiere of a text by Elfriede Jelinek called Sonne, los jetzt!, on Contre-enquêtes as well as about Riesenhaft in Mittelerde, a collaboration with Theater Hora loosely based on themes from Lord of the Rings.

Christopher Rüping speaks about Border, his new staging for the Schiffbau-Halle which is inspired by the film Gräns by Ali Abbasi, and about Gier, his new work based on the text Greed by Sarah Kane from 1990, which he will premiere at Pfauen 

Yana Ross on her staging of Reigen, after Arthur Schnitzler, which premiered at the Salzburger Festspiele and will be shown at Pfauen in the season 22/23. For Yana Ross’s production, ten internationally renowned authors bring the material into the present day: Lydia Haider, Sofi Oksanen, Leïla Slimani, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Leif Randt, Mikhail Durnenkov, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, Kata Wéber, Jonas Hassen Khemiri and Lukas Bärfuss have each rewritten one of the ten scenes of Schnitzler’s play.

Suna Gürler speaks about her new work Kleine Fische (AT/WT), in which she will set out together with a few male players in search of the men of the future, again based on a text written by Lucien Haug. Gürler als speaks about a new production that will premiere in February 2023 and once again takes over the Pfauen with the help of young people on stage

Wu Tsang talks about Pinocchio at the Pfauen and about A Wild Piece of Wood, a festival with film installations in the spring of 2023 at the Zeughaus that focusses on topics which will also be adressed in Pinocchio. Surrounding a Virtual Reality video installation on the lower floor of the Zeughaus, the cosmos Moved by the Motion materializes through concerts, panel discussions, performative vignettes and study groups

Stas Zhyrkov talks about Antigone, a production the Ukrainian director of the Kyiv Left Bank Theatre will stage at Pfauen in spring 2023. With the Ukrainian Antigone, the Schauspielhaus Zürich is endeavoring to continue its tradition as a theater in exile