In Cinema Dialogue, Monika Gintersdorfer and Knut Klaßen critically examine the United Nations’ ostensibly apolitical Millennium Development Goals. They juxtapose the universalism of the UN programme with the local reality of urban development in Kinshasa between 2000 and the present day.

De Warme Winkel aims to compete with the greats, be it the Berliner Volksbühne, Romeo Castellucci or Pina Bausch. And how could it be otherwise than by creating the ultimate version of their own universe? Inimitable, poetic, and suffused with humour, this incredible and urgent apotheosis turns out not to be a swan song, but a magnum opus.

EXTRA SHOW 5/12! - Pieter Ampe and Benjamin Verdonck bring a disruptive concertante of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. On stage, the seasons pass by, but the sequence is not always as it should be. The marvellous, endless epilogue that follows leaves you feeling orphaned and defenceless.

With the journalistic theatre project HULP, she focuses on North-South issues. Do we still actually believe in development aid? And what course should we follow in the year 2017? Nuyens forces you to consider the value of ‘doing good’ and humanitarianism, in an era where individuals come first.

What begins as an innocent game soon degenerates into a fierce battle with a victorious winner. The line between real and unreal begins to fade disturbingly: how fragile is our civilization in reality?

This is a woman who, on payment, you briefly possess, but rarely to love her. She wants to save her daughter from the solitude into which her own fate has plunged her. She sees the hope of a new life disintegrate at the start of the Arab Spring.

Has democracy become something we passively endure? Christophe Meierhans is testing out the notion, and you are his guinea pig. He invites you to prepare a meal – turning the kitchen into a political battleground! There’s nothing more challenging than taking part in the action onstage and thereby sharing responsibility for the result.

Was ist Europa? Gibt es „Europeanness“ – eine europäische kulturelle Identität – oder bleibt es bei einem geographisch begrenzten Gebiet? In Home Visit Europe stellt das Berliner Theaterkollektiv Rimini Protokoll die abstrakte Idee eines europäischen Staatenbundes dem individuellen Charakter einer Privatwohnung gegenüber.

‘Food for the mind’, that is The Discreet Charm of Marxism. You will be served Marxist writings on the class struggle and revolution as a full six-course meal. In this conversation piece you eat, read and discuss with the other guests! Bring a hunger for ideas and good food.