Fast Forward

What happens when women stop smiling and ignoring men’s sexism? Exactly: someone’s going to get a smack! Bloody, celebratory, cathartic!

What decisions does a person who goes into exile make? What do they see ahead of them? What do they leave behind? Where are they on their way to?

The truth is: the outskirts are the centre. Or where else can you get to know an entire small town in one and a half hours?

Life begins with a scream. What makes us quiet after that? This associative stage trip explores the human voice – and more.

A walk. Seven audience members. Seven performers. Seven manifestos. A future? Might be. But which one?

The “most beautiful poem of the twentieth century”! And a tough play that explores the question of how we can hope, love, live and survive.

Two twin brothers and a shared evening of dance, charm, humour, honest words, glitter t-shirts, similarities and differences

Civilisation is an achievement. So is language. But how can one manage to turn 30 without deeply betraying your own self?

Ceremonial opening of Fast Forward with guests.

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We’ll sing your favourite songs together into the Dresden evening sky.

This is where exciting encounters and exchanges between theatre students and experts take place.

A toast to polyphony: two juries and an audience award ensure an exciting awards ceremony on the last evening.

A goodbye forever and a final journey into an enigmatic, poetic universe without words.

A homosexual young man and his parents in an intimate and clever family drama about acceptance.

Desire and suffering of a failed love: chaotic, impulsive, risky, double-edged and with musical interludes.

What is entertainment? What is a comedy? Can you be politically funny? Or comically unpolitical?

How do you say “colonisation” in Arabic? Colonial history is a source of inspiration for this play, Victor Klemperer’s LTI is another.

Five brothers and sisters of FIGHT CLUB cult figure Tyler Durden let loose on Anton Checkhov’s CHERRY ORCHARD.

The story always ends this way: with the murder of Marie. But why, ask Marie, Margret and Glossy Pain.

Ceremonial opening and festival closing by Fast Forward and guests.

A toast to polyphony: two juries and an audience award ensure an exciting awards ceremony on the last evening.

can simply not be missed at Fast Forward.

We stroll through Dresden's Neustadt, singing love songs.

A conversation with Katharina Stoll from Glossy Pain and Lily Sykes, in-house director at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, about taking a look at a „classic“

This is where exciting encounters and exchanges between theatre students and experts take place.

Fast Forward Prize winners Jaz Woodcock-Stewart and Laura Kutkaitė direct at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.

Agitprop songs from 1945 until today shrewdly staged in a choral setting for six voices.

A perfectly staged theatre performance, only the actors and actresses are playing it for the very first time….

An atmospherically dense theatre film juxtaposes documentary material from the NSU trial with a cult book from the right-wing scene.

Here the audience makes the move: it’s a game about power, with the director as host.

Could become a love story, but then escalates into comic despair or  The Death of the Dialogue and How to Avoid It

The daughter was born in France, the father in Algeria. The journey to one’s own roots begins with the question of what this means.

The story of the woman behind the legend and plenty of music by this extraordinary blues and rock singer.

Strong aesthetics and a sense for contradictions: the myth of seductive women and victorious heroes seen from the perspective of #MeToo.

Festive opening of Fast Forward with guests

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The club performance DISSOLVERY with nonexistheatre in Kiev and Dresden & a report on a theatre play with young people from Mariupol

Exciting projects & open questions: The working situation for theatre makers is complicated at times. Here they can compare notes.

can simply not be missed at Fast Forward.

A toast to polyphony: two juries and an audience award ensure an exciting awards ceremony on the last evening.