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Berlin’s Deutsches Theater Stages Dürrenmatt’s „Die Physiker“ with Cross-Gender Casting and Stark Staging to Amplify Nuclear Dread in 2026 Premiere

How the staging mirrors the play’s themes of confinement and revelation

The premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s „Die Physiker“ at Berlin’s Deutsches Theater on April 25, 2026, arrived not as a historical footnote but as a jolt of recognition — a 64-year-old play about nuclear dread suddenly feeling less like allegory and …