BONNIE & CLYDE | (2x 60 min.)| World premiere The young ensemble of the Theater am Stadtwald brings the world premiere of its own production BONNIE & CLYDE to the stage in 2026 - two iconic outlaws, their love and anger and the myth of the USA - a satirical and crude reckoning with the dream of violence as a glimmer of hope under the direction of Sandro Heidenreich. God bless America. With a promise to themselves to light up the filth of this world with an incendiary device, the rage girl CLYDE, smelling of cigarette smoke and motor oil, and the bad-bunny BONNIE, longing for a stage, travel like a radical axe through the frozen lake of our silence, through the America of the 1930s, robbing banks. Who are these two driven men who, post mortem, became one of the most famous pairs of lovers alongside the fictional characters Romeo and Juliet and have since been dissonantly either heroized or passed down as insane? CLYDE: »I have no idea who I am. I can't say what I am and I'll never know.« The play approaches the story of Bonnie & Clyde from today's perspective. What are we literally projecting onto these murderers? What does their story say about violence, longing and social conditions? The production looks at the story of Bonnie & Clyde as a mirror of social mechanisms. Current issues such as radicalization, lack of prospects and the question of responsibility are addressed. The focus is on the specific evaluation of the history of violence in the USA and brutality as an aesthetic and a way of life. Violence as a self-image. Violence as a promise of strength. The production poses the question of whether people actually fight for values or whether in the end they only remain part of the same mechanisms that they want to fight. It's not about the explosion, but about the match and whether nothing can be changed without violence. Judas Priest: «Breaking the law, breaking the law» Why now? Because the USA is burning. Or has never stopped burning. Radicalization, political hardening and a growing lack of prospects characterize the present. Violence once again appears to be a legitimate response to fear, anger and powerlessness. People are fighting in the name of ideals or pretending to have ideals in order to pursue their own interests. This is precisely why it is necessary to look at these mechanisms now. But it is not enough to analyze them. We have to take a stand. -1 The problem is that we are increasingly working against each other instead of talking to each other. This is not the way to create movement or progress. If we only condemn, we reinforce the division. We should appeal to humanity. Historical analogies are always tricky because times cannot simply be superimposed on one another. However, it is not about retelling stories, but about making continuities visible in order to illustrate how patterns repeat and reproduce themselves. The progression of the eternal spiral of violence and revenge. DUDE #4: »Their fight is a fight for themselves.« The Junges Ensemble, a department of the Theater am Stadtwald, has been staging plays since 2007. The focus is always on the joy of experimentation of young adults. Following the success of last year's comedy “Are they still alive - or are we already inheriting?”, another daring play is now on the program. Sandro Heidenreich is bringing together his roles as actor, author and director for the first time in his own play production. However, the team performance as an ensemble is the main focus. Do you really know what happened?

Find out at these performance dates: Premiere | Saturday, 05/02/2026 | 7 PM 2nd Performance | Sunday, 05/03/2026 | 7 PM 3rd Performance | Wednesday, 05/06/2026 | 7 PM 4th Performance | Friday, 05/08/2026 | 7 PM 5th Performance | Sunday, 05/10/2026 | 7 PM 

Doors open at 6:30 PM | 2 hours excluding intermission Ticket reservation for €10,- available from April 13, 2026, by phone at the ASV office 08131/5681-0 or by email at theater@asv-dachau.de Remaining tickets at the box office Age recommendation: 14 years and up Theater am Stadtwald Gröbenrieder Straße 21, 85221 Dachau https://maps.app.goo.gl/gzTEgVn8AihuEdm4A Contact: K.Konwitschny@gmx.de (Department Head) sandro.heidenreich@gmx.de Director