The Prince of Homburg

The night before going into battle the Prince of Homburg goes sleepwalking: dreaming of love, ambition and victory. As the morning comes, a reckless act of disobedience sets in motion a chain of events that leads to her worst nightmare.

In this radical & modern retelling of Kleist’s classic , the story is placed in 2019, into a world which could be ours, but somehow feels like a dream. Freely adapted from Neil Bartlett’s translation with a gender-swapped lead, this production asks what we do when the reality around us becomes confusing and chaotic. Do we actively stand up for what we believe in or passively go on as before?