When the going gets tough, one can only remain optimistic: it will get better.

The English Theater Frankfurt cannot fare much worse than in the past season anyway.

Not only did Corona and the associated lockdown prevent a production from being performed in front of an audience in addition to the thriller "Switzerland", Brexit also brings with it a number of challenges for a company that works largely with British actors and directors, who are cast in London and rehearse there before the pieces come on stage in Frankfurt.

Christian Riethmüller

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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    Based on the Soul II soul hit “Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)”, the English Theater has hopefully issued the slogan “Back to Live!” For the new season, because it is supposed to start on September 3rd get it back on the boards that mean the world. The season opens with the stage version of Paula Hawkins' thriller “The Girl on the Train”, a German premiere, staged by Psyche Stott, who directed the eco-thriller “The Children” almost two years ago. This year's musical production should be funny and weird. Derek Anderson directs Mel Brooks' comedy-horror musical "Young Frankenstein", in which the genres are properly parodied. The premiere is planned for November 20 and a long term until March 6, 2022.After that, the production of the English Theater will be performed in the Deutsches Theater in Munich.

    Retail sales are scheduled to start on August 1st

    For the third time, the rehearsed Mistery piece "Secret Life of Humans" by David Byrne is on the program, which has never been performed in Frankfurt.

    The tragedy “American Son” by Christopher Demos-Brown, a co-production with the Ensemble Theater Company, directed by Jonathan Fox, in Santa Barbara, California, which is to be played from May 6, 2022 in Frankfurt, was also planned once before.

    And at the end of the season it will be political with “The Totalitarians”, a farce by the American playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, which will be performed from June 15 to July 24, 2022.

    Subscription sales have already begun, and individual sales are due to start on August 1st, "because we can then foresee sooner" whether the situation has eased, "says Artistic Director Daniel Nicolai.