Junges DT Production
Dear Yelena Sergeyewna (Liebe Jelena Sergejewna)
by Ljudmila Rasumowskaja
Four school students visit their teacher to wish her a happy birthday. But behind the kind gesture is cold-hearted plan: they want to blackmail her for the key to the school safe in order to forge the results of their final maths exam. There is a great deal at stake for them. The birthday party soon turns into a power struggle in which Yelena Sergeyevna tries to defend her ideals against the increasing unscrupulousness and brutality of the tenth-graders. Soon it is no longer about grades and their chances for the future, but about moral integrity and ultimately naked survival.
This intimate, thriller-like play was censured shortly after its premiere in the 1980s, as it can be read as a parable of a USSR caught between dictatorship and unbridled egoism. Later it enjoyed success both in and outside Russia, and was filmed and recorded as a radio play.
The director Jan Friedrich brings this claustrophobic drama to the stage with Judith Hofmann and four young actors.
This intimate, thriller-like play was censured shortly after its premiere in the 1980s, as it can be read as a parable of a USSR caught between dictatorship and unbridled egoism. Later it enjoyed success both in and outside Russia, and was filmed and recorded as a radio play.
The director Jan Friedrich brings this claustrophobic drama to the stage with Judith Hofmann and four young actors.
Director and Stage Jan Friedrich
Costume Mira Phumdorkmai
Music Felix Rösch
Lights Heiko Thomas
Dramaturgy Sima Djabar Zadegan, Maura Meyer
Premiere: 29 January 2022, Box
Stephanie Amarell
Judith Hofmann
Emil Kollmann
Lasse Kühlcke
Laurids Schürmann
What's on
Performance has been cancelled
Director: Sebastian Hartmann
Due to an illness in the ensemble, the performance of The Idiot after Fyodor Dostoyevsky must unfortunately be cancelled today without replacement. Tickets already purchased can be exchanged or returned at the theatre box office within 14 days. To do so, please either send an e-mail with your IBAN to service@deutschestheater.de or call the box office at +49 30 28441-225. The book premiere will be held in spring 2022.
Deutsches Theater
20.00 - 00.15
19.30 Introduction – Saal