Theater Is Dead. Long Live Theater

Overflowing with sensuality, internationally celebrated, open to diversity and transcending disciplinary boundaries, yet also contested, cloaked, and fought over: the directorship of Benjamin von Blomberg and Nicolas Stemann at the Schauspielhaus Zurich was a groundbreaking period. Packaged as an alphabetical glossary, this reader evokes the hopes and promises associated with the directorship, represents the diverse styles of the participating artists, and sparks public debates about the reorientation of the Schauspielhaus. So what remains of this attempt to rethink municipal theater for the 21st century? Theater is dead. Long live theater. Schauspielhaus Zurich 2019 - 2024 does not provide final answers but gathers material that could be relevant for future renewal attempts. In doing so, it creates an artistic text and image volume that celebrates an expanded concept of theater and depicts and contextualizes the works created in Zurich across theater, dance, film, and the performing arts.