Past Projects

Season 2015/2016: Horu-Fröiä - The First Ladies of the Matterhorn

Mountain climbing in Victorian petticoats:
In 1871 Meta Brevoort and Lucy Walker are ambitiously making their way to the top. Because among Alpine pioneers, men and women alike, the "Horu" (Matterhorn) is considered the most desirable trophy. Which of the two ladies will be The First?

(This event is in German and Swiss German.)

Berg-Besteigerinnen in Binn

Season 2013: PENTHESILEA

By Heinrich von Kleist.
English translation: Joel Agee.

Boy meets girl. Girl eats boy. A goth and gory myth of gender war, culture clash and lethal love.

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Here is Penthesilea, one of the great plays: epic and painfully intimate, immediate and eternal, endlessly elusive and shockingly abrupt, a tragic masterpiece about gender, desire, history, myth, and war. I don't believe there's an English-language version of the play--or of any of Kleist's plays--comparable to this new translation by Joel Agee. It seems to me pitch perfect in its sensitivity to Kleist's irony, his complexity, his icy, tormented passion.

Season 2012: The Most Dangerous Toy

When Nietzsche meets Lou Salomé, he feels he has found 'a voice, for which I have waited and waited since childhood'. One year later, he has retreated to a remote mountain village, madly scribbling Thus Spake Zarathustra. And advising men to take a whip, when they go to women. Working exclusively from original texts, Playades Theatre Company explores what happened in that seminal year of 1882: philosophy versus reality, society versus individual fulfillment, man versus woman - and the hunger for life and knowledge that surmounts all contradictions.

Flyer The Most Dangerous Toy

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a most engaging play
Three Weeks

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Season 2011: Blue Beard Babes

The divorced, beheaded, dead, surviving wives invite you to a backstage tour through what really happened with hot & heavy Harry.

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startlingly beautiful
Fringe Guru

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