GHOST TRAIN

People want more than happiness - they seek meaning, which includes confronting their own mortality, fear, and the unknown. Cie. Freaks und Fremde embarks on a journey of ghosts through times, spheres, and cultures. Unlike traditional haunted houses that draw from monsters in literature, film, or video games, GHOST TRAIN ventures into the world of personal abysses: demons of everyday life, ghosts of the past, the foreign and inexplicable in every form.

Through sound-making, object and puppet theatre, live music, projections, and illusions, the ensemble travels with its audience through the abyss of night until sunrise. This is not about quick scares from giant spiders or zombies - Freaks und Fremde pursue the moment that comes after fear. The seemingly dead comes alive and stands before the audience, breathing and questioning.

"Where there are no gods, ghosts reign." (Novalis, 1799)

Artistic direction, scenography, performance: Sabine Köhler, Heiki Ikkola | Composition, live music: Tobias Herzz Hallbauer | Technical direction, lighting: Josia Werth | Video projections, sound collaboration: Beate Oxenfart | Set design collaboration: Bärbel Haage | Sound and sound design collaboration: Frieder Zimmermann | Direction and dramaturgy collaboration: Jörg Lehmann

Supported by the Fund for Performing Arts from the budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. A co-production with Societaetstheater Dresden.

Premiere: 19.09.2026, Societaetstheater Dresden | Duration: approximately 90 minutes

After the performance on 19.09.2026: premiere party with Krambambuli!