Theatre & Stage
To be or not to be
Tuesday, 17/03/2026 / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM / Neustrelitz State Theater
Comedy by Nick Whitby
1939, Warsaw. "To be or not to be" - that is the question when, during the famous Hamlet monologue, the young flight officer Sobinsky stands up in the stalls and disappears. Deeply shocked, Hamlet no longer understands the world; meanwhile, the officer goes to the dressing room of Maria Tura, beloved acting diva at the house - and wife of Josef Tura, alias Hamlet.
"To be or not to be" is also the question asked by the ensemble, which has recently had to bow to Nazi censorship and has unceremoniously put "Hamlet" on the repertoire instead of a political farce. When war breaks out and a secret list with the names of Polish resistance fighters emerges, the theater group decides to do everything in its power to prevent this paper from falling into the hands of the Nazis. "To be or not to be" - the curtain rises on the world stage: the theater quickly becomes Gestapo headquarters, Maria becomes a budding spy, Josef becomes group leader Erhardt and the ensemble has to be on top form.
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