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The discipline Theatre is pleased to present works by students of the academic year 2025/2026 that stand out for the diversity of their formats, demonstrating students’ consistent willingness to play with the ideas and boundaries of theatre, continually recontextualizing them. These works showcase theatre as both an aesthetic and social laboratory, opening up new spaces for imagination and action.

The graduating students of the BA Scenography present independent final projects: installations, temporary architectures, and performative spaces for performance, theatre, and dance. In DOES THIS STILL BELONG TO ME?, we follow a dog thawed from the permafrost on an audio walk across the Allmend, reflecting together on changing landscapes, bodies, perception, and memory. HOMETOWN SODOM invites us to become part of a city in the making: one founded on care, openness, and solidarity. The spatial installation 04:49 – WHAT REMAINS? turns its gaze toward the inner landscape of a suicidal psychosis, leaving behind a space marked by absence, traces, and stillness. In the dance performance WOLFSWOOL, the wolves have long since mingled among us, prompting us to consider how humans deal with fear when the boundary between good and evil begins to blur. 

The BA Directing programme enables graduates to complete two major final projects alongside the realization of various scenic and performative works. One is a theatrical piece that engages with a given text or material, while the other is a project where content, form, and team are freely chosen.

At the end of the MA Directing programme, there is a significant final project, the content and form of which are freely chosen. The project presentations frequently occur in collaboration with other programmes of the Theatre discipline such as acting, scenic design, or sound design.

The graduates of the Bachelor’s in Acting present themselves through their performances as authors of the narratives of their artistically exploratory works. The content emerges from individual inquiries and research, stemming from the themes of their respective written Bachelor’s theses. The projects and performances confidently showcase contemporary relevant content and forms, either developed solo or collectively. This demonstrates their ability to position themselves as socially conscious individuals, both in artistic action and beyond the stage. Transitioning into the professional field, the graduates present themselves in their work with reflection and professionalism.

With her diploma project MI CASITA, Edith Kaupp Rivadeneira presents herself as an innovative artist. The film explores themes of belonging, family history, and loss. Combining autofictional storytelling with documentary elements, the short film follows a journey through Colombia and intertwines personal research with artistic reflection.

Upon completing their studies, graduates undertake a theatre project involving non-professional actors. They determine the theme, performance location, and approach themselves. The process and performance are characterized by a continuous dialogue with the participants, emphasizing exploratory and experimental actions.

In their master project, students initiate a mediation initiative with an institutional critique focus. Through performative settings, they intervene in existing practices, providing impulses for reflection and advancement of the institution. Together with their partners, they drive forward a potential course of action as an example.

The Master of Arts in Theatre (MATch) creates a unique space of encounter for artists from across the fields of theatre and performance practice, such as dramaturgy, acting, theatre education, directing and scenography. As part of a four-day festival, first-year MATch students presented artistic positions they had developed over the course of their studies through collaborative research and working processes. The festival title was very much the program: a boost as a departure, an acceleration, a shared momentum — a moment of collective energy.