Koblenz in Shakespeare fever: Magic Sturm celebrates its premiere!

Koblenz in Shakespeare fever: Magic Sturm celebrates its premiere!

On February 1, 2025, the staging of William Shakespeare's “The Sturm” premiere at the Koblenz Theater. With her creative design, director Caro Thum brings a fresh wind into the classic work that was written in the period from 1610 to 1611. This new production takes place against the background of a comprehensive renovation of the city theater, which includes costs of 38 million euros and is to take a year. During this time, the theater tries to the impressive backdrop of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress.

The staging uses innovative means to capture the atmosphere of history. Wind machines bloat a transparent plastic tarpaulin that symbolically represents the setting ship, while bodyy dolls appear as ghost creatures Rhein-Zeitung About these exciting elements. The play tells of Prospero, the fallen Duke of Milan, who lives with his daughter Miranda on a lonely island. This island is inhabited by the figure of the Caliban, which is enslaved by Prospero.

visual and thematic design

caro thumum staging is not only visually appealing, but also thematically profound. Caliban is portrayed in a fur coat and offers protection from the shipwrecked Stefano during a huge thunderstorm. A small doll that Caliban often leads could symbolically stand for his child. At the end of the play, Caliban remains, while the other characters take the return trip. The doll is called "island waste" by Sebastienne and breaks, which is a strong metaphor for loss and abandoning Knowledge .

critical reflection and ironic accents

A central moment in the staging is Miranda's exclamation "o beautiful new world that is wearing such people", which is interpreted ironically and stimulates the audience to think. The dramaturgy of this performance, under the direction of Juliane Wulfgram, is further reinforced by the visual and acoustic dimension, which is supported, for example, by the use of light by Christofer Zirngibl.

The staging has a total duration of 1 hour and 45 minutes, without a break. A committed team of contributors, including Reinhard Riecke, Marcel Hoffmann and Christof Maria Kaiser, brings Shakespeares to live the complex characters. With this new production of "Der Sturm", the Koblenz Theater not only contributes to preservation, but also to the creative redesign of the Shakespeare heritage, an author whose works still shape and inspire the theater landscape. The insight into Shakespeare's dramas offers a basis for the theater art of the present and opens up access to the viewers access to timeless topics such as power, love and identity.