Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde.

The expressionist drama Hinkemann is a tragedy in three acts by the writer Ernst Toller. Hinkemann was born in 1921/22 in the fortress prison at Lower Schönfeld, where Ernst Toller was imprisoned from 1920 to 1924. The tragedy appeared in 1923 under the title The German Hinkemann.

Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. His play "The plummeting old women" is an absurd story. Excessive curiosity made one old woman fall out of a window, plummet to the ground and break into pieces. Another old woman poked her head out of a window to look at the one who had broken into pieces, but excessive curiosity made her too fall out of the window, plummet to the ground and break into pieces. Then a third old woman fell out of a window, then a fourth, then a fifth.

Before the performance began, thirty drummers whirl their mallets in the foyer of the Berlin Volksbühne, so that the rebellious sound penetrated your body. Pimped up in his expectation, one can then enter a dark theater room, but is given a Chinese flashlight in his hand. This allows you to shine the actors who are beginning to act in the background of the hall out of the darkness. Director Andreas Kriegenburg, Castorf's supporter for a theater of contradiction, has come up with all sorts of ideas to make Lew Lunz's premiere of the political spectacle "City of Truth" effective.

The play by Ray Galton and John Antrobus is a hilarious farce from 1988. An extramarital affair turns into a nightmare when a thief pinches the husband’s trousers: Bookmaker Howard Swerling is married – and visiting his lover when a burglar steals his trousers. The hunt for spare trousers commences, leading to a sex-mad policeman’s proposal of marriage, drug parties and half-clad men and women – and from there straight into mayhem. And yet all Howard wants is to be home before his wife wakes up...

The Robbers (Original title: Die Räuber) is the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. The play was published in 1781 and premiered on 13 January 1782 in Mannheim, Germany, and was inspired by Leisewitz' earlier play Julius of Tarent. The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic brothers, Karl and Franz Moor. The charismatic but rebellious student Karl is deeply loved by his father. The younger brother, Franz, who appears as a cold, calculating villain, plots to wrest away Karl's inheritance.

Heart of a Dog (Original title: Собачье сердце, Sobachye syerdtsye) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. It is generally interpreted as an allegory of the Communist revolution and the revolution's misguided attempt to radically transform mankind. (Source: Wikipedia) For the first time in the GDR, the play was performed at the Volksbühne. (Source: Volksbühne Archiv)

Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a comedy by Neil Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1969. Barney Cashman, a middle-aged, married nebbish wants to join the sexual revolution before it is too late. A gentle soul with no experience in adultery, he fails in each of three seductions: Elaine Navazio, a sexpot who likes cigarettes, whiskey, and other women's husbands; Bobbi Michele, an actress friend who he discovers is madder than a hatter; and Jeannette Fisher, his wife's best friend, a staunch moralist. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kaspar, the human being is a comedy written by Adolf Glaßbrenner in Hamburg. It was published in 1850. The play can be called a reading drama because it is much more like a political pamphlet than a play and can be read as an aesthetic-political declaration of war. The prologue voice, which can be equated with Glaßbrenner, calls for a revolution in poetry and the state. (Source: Wikipedia)

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