In June 2025, the PERFORMAGE association is staging the first theatre festival with productions featuring people aged 60+. Projects from German-speaking Switzerland, French-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and Germany will be shown and experienced.
Neues aus Verona
The Greyhounds play Romeo and Juliet
Saturday, 28 June 2025 10:30
Greyhounds Voralpentheater Luzern
90 Min.
German
Drama
Presentation in the hall
Wheelchair accessible
With debriefing
The Greyhounds retell Romeo and Juliet. Kurt Bösch has rewritten the play based on the Shakespearean original for the 14-member ensemble of the Greyhounds.
A charming evening of theatre about great love, touching and bold with lots of choral music by Christov Rolla.
Staging: Reto Ambauen
Text: Kurt Bösch
Musical direction: Christov Rolla
Set: Bernadette Meier
Assistant director: Claudia Sommaruga
Dramaturgical support: Elsbet Saurer
Light design: Bruno Gisler
Production management: Gian Leander Bättig
Graphics: Simone Eggstein
Players*: Hannelore Aschwanden, Mariann Bahr, Claire Brunner, Guido Dillier, Heidi Durrer, Max Fischer, Ivo Graf, Annelies Gerber-Halter, Susanne Hajas Eberle, Irene Ibanez, Albert Müller, Birgit Thoma, Margrit Staffelbach, Ueli Zutter
Ticket prices:
CHF 30.00 /
CHF 20.00 Greyhounds Voralpentheater Luzern
The Greyhounds are a theatre group of the VorAlpentheater Luzern made up of people aged 60 and over. The ensemble was founded by Reto Ambauen, who also works as a director. The group's productions are dedicated to themes of old age and life stories and give older people a stage to tell their stories.
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