German

Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists is a darkly comic thriller set in a psychiatric clinic, where three scientists pretend to be mad. Their hidden identities and inventions trigger a tense battle between ethics and power, revealing how dangerous knowledge can be in the wrong hands.

Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists is a darkly comic thriller set in a psychiatric clinic, where three scientists pretend to be mad. Their hidden identities and inventions trigger a tense battle between ethics and power, revealing how dangerous knowledge can be in the wrong hands.

The Outlines of a Human, Emerging on the Stage.
Theater as a Medium of Human (Self-)Recognition and -Production in Shakespeare, Aristotle, and Jakob Lenz.

Carla Nowak is the new teacher at a local high school. When she discovers a series of thefts, she decides to investigate. As she tries to get to the bottom of the problem, most everyone around her—colleagues, parents, students—tries to stop her. When one of her students’ mother becomes the chief suspect, Carla resorts to methods that set her off on a road of no return. 

In German, with English subtitles.

The German Theater Group will present Bernd Spehling’s hilarious farce “Der Teufel liest auch Kleinanzeigen”, a comedy that shows that a small misunderstanding in a classified ad might not just jeopardize your best-kept secrets but also lead to complete mayhem in your apartment and your marriage. Watch pilot Marcel Freiherr von Hohenstein find out these truths the hard and hilarious way …

The German Theater Group will present Bernd Spehling’s hilarious farce “Der Teufel liest auch Kleinanzeigen”, a comedy that shows that a small misunderstanding in a classified ad might not just jeopardize your best-kept secrets but also lead to complete mayhem in your apartment and your marriage. Watch pilot Marcel Freiherr von Hohenstein find out these truths the hard and hilarious way …

Come visit Madame Prospère’s bar “Der Grüne Kakadu” in Paris anno 1789. Specializing in offering guests a glimpse into what revolutionary Paris might look and feel like, Madame Prospère has assembled a talented group of actors who pose as bandits, thieves, and revolutionaries to provide visiting aristocrats with the pleasant “thrill” that the possibility of their demise instills. But as events in Paris take a serious turn on July 14th, 1789, the boundaries between performance and reality, between history and performance, and between the private and the political begin to blur.

Come visit Madame Prospère’s bar “Der Grüne Kakadu” in Paris anno 1789. Specializing in offering guests a glimpse into what revolutionary Paris might look and feel like, Madame Prospère has assembled a talented group of actors who pose as bandits, thieves, and revolutionaries to provide visiting aristocrats with the pleasant “thrill” that the possibility of their demise instills. But as events in Paris take a serious turn on July 14th, 1789, the boundaries between performance and reality, between history and performance, and between the private and the political begin to blur.

The German Theater Group at Middlebury presents satirist Ephraim Kishon’s “Zieh den Stecker raus, das Wasser kocht”, a hilarious take on Avant Garde art and what it takes to be successful in the modern arts scene. Come and watch young Raphael Schlesinger wrestle with his unexpected success as a “Möbelkünstler” while he desires nothing more than being recognized for his beautiful paintings of his girlfriend, Dahlia. But what would art history’s greats such as Rembrandt do in our modern times? —In German, with synopses in English available at the door.