When does ANACHASTROPA take place?

The event takes place on Friday, November 27, 2026, at 18:30.

Where does the event start?

The venue is the Prinz Regent Theater at Prinz-Regent-Str. 50-60, 44795 Bochum.

How much does a ticket cost?

The price information lists tickets starting from 8 Euro.

What can the audience expect at ANACHASTROPA?

The production combines an audiowalk along Castroper Strasse with a music theater performance at the Prinz Regent Theater and involves the audience walking along and listening.

Who is creating the production?

ANACHASTROPA is produced by kainkollektiv and Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue in cooperation with the Prinz Regent Theater and actors from Castroper Strasse.

Is there information about duration and schedule?

Current information about duration, schedule, and recommendations for participation will be published according to the event page from November 9, 2026, on the websites of the Prinz Regent Theater and the kainkollektiv.

ANACHASTROPA transforms Bochum's Castroper Strasse into a singing city fabric

Name: ANACHASTROPA - An Audiowalk & Street Opera Performance
Start: 2026-11-27T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-27T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Prinz Regent Theater

ANACHASTROPA: A Street Becomes a Stage

An accident involving a bus, a mysterious trace, and Castroper Strasse as a pulsating resonance space: With ANACHASTROPA, the kainkollektiv, together with Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, the Prinz Regent Theater, and actors from Castroper Strasse invites you to an unusual stage experience. The audiowalk and street opera performance combines music theater, urban space, and performative research into a journey through times, spaces, and realities.

Between Accident Scene and Urban Oracle

It begins with an accident in the middle of Castroper Strasse. However, behind this event quickly unfolds a multi-voiced panorama: Who was in the bus? Singing football fans, musical tourists, space passengers, refugees, or prisoners? The staging transforms these questions into a theatrical oracle and focuses on the people, stories, and institutions along one of Bochum's most prominent streets.

Music Theater in Urban Space

ANACHASTROPA moves between on-site audiowalk and music theater performance at the Prinz Regent Theater. The audience walks and listens along as voices, sounds, and real locations merge into a sound sculpture. Castroper Strasse is presented not just as a backdrop but as a social sculpture: as a traffic artery, memory space, and public stage of contradictory life worlds.

From Oedipus to Brecht

Dramaturgically, the production spans a bridge from Oedipus's tragic encounter at the ancient crossroads through Brecht's epic street theater to the voices of the present. The direction translates these historical cultural reference points into an open, participatory stage form. At its center lies the question of how people are connected today - even where belonging remains invisible, fragile, or contested.

A Radical Invitation to Shift Perspectives

The set design is created from the city itself. Prison walls, stadium, synagogue, planetarium, hospital, and musical hall form an urban network that becomes newly interpretable through acoustics, movement, and voices. The art of acting combines with musical performance and documentary impulses. Thus, a theater atmosphere emerges that relies less on distance and more on immediate perception.

The production is funded in part by the Musikfonds, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, and the City of Bochum.

Conclusion: Experience Bochum as a Sound Body

ANACHASTROPA promises not ordinary theater in the auditorium but a mobile, sensual stage experience between a city walk, opera, and social research. Those who wish to discover Bochum from a new perspective and transcend the boundaries between audience, stage, and public space will experience an extraordinary invitation on November 27, 2026: a street for everyone, a street for no one.