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A Different Blue (UA)

Meditation on Longing
 

Imagine something shining behind appearances.
Something shifts, unfolds around you. Suddenly you see
the possible paths of your life. Are you dreaming?
It is as if your perception is becoming more intense.
You don't know it yet, but there is a sense of where
you are being drawn in the time you have been given. You pause.
You are not alone. There it is, the moment when You are not alone. There it is, the moment when
silence turns into song.

Inspired by Novalis' novel fragment Heinrich von
Ofterdingen, the motifs of longing in Romanticism and
an exploration of the fear
of death inspired by it, the ensemble embarks on an unconventional search for the possibilities of encounter and connection. How can we rediscover ourselves and the world around us?
What inspires us? What drives us?
What fears and divisions can we overcome,
what communities can we form?

Between meditation and choreography, slapstick and
tenderness, the evening gives rise to a largely wordless
poetic series of images that brings people together, sometimes
in shared solitude, sometimes as a mutually supportive group,
and ultimately in unreserved harmony, accompanying them
into the dawning certainty that everything
that is could also be different.

 

Doubleshow ‘Anarchy and Longing’
Ein anderes Blau (UA) will also be performed as a double bill together with the play Das eingebildete Tier (DEA) on the following dates:
7 November, 15 November, 22 November, 29 November.

Information

Premiere

07.11.2025

Location

Theater an der Ruhr
Akazienallee 61
45478 Theater an der Ruhr

Cast

Team

UTOPIE 1
07.11.-30.11.25 07.11.-30.11.25
More
Thu 20.11. 19:30
+ Guided tour,
Daily program
18:30 • Exhibition Tour • Guided tour
18:30 • Installations •
Fri 28.11. 19:30
+ , Konzert
Daily program
18:30 • Installations •
21:00 • Echoes from the Future • Konzert

Interview with Julie Grothgar und Charlotte Sprenger

 

The two directors of the plays “Ein anderes Blau” (A Different Blue) and “Das eingebildete Tier” (The Imaginary Animal) in conversation with dramaturgs Constanze Fröhlich and Alexander Weinstock.

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Double feature: ‘Anarchy and Longing’

Das eingebildete Tier (DEA) & Ein anderes Blau (UA)

Next activity on Sat 15.11.

Further pieces during UTOPIE 1

Antropka (UA)

Mixed-Reality-Theater

Maria Vogt

Next activity on Thu 13.11.

Showdown – eine Übung des Erbstreits

subbotnik

Next activity on Thu 13.11.

Das eingebildete Tier (German premiere)

An ecstatic spectacle of humanity
by Valère Novarina | translation by Leopold von Verschuer

Next activity on Fri 21.11.