The Day My Mother Went Crazy at kleine theater Landshut

An intense dance theater about trauma, family, and the fragility of reality

On June 6, 2026, an award-winning text meets the language of the body at the kleine theater – KAMMERSPIELE Landshut. The Day My Mother Went Crazy by Tijan Sila tells the story of a family whose reality has been shattered by war, flight, and silence. What appears at first glance as an intimate family story unfolds as a poetic stage experience of great emotional impact.

When words are no longer enough

Tijan Sila's narrative, awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2024, navigates that narrow line between tragedy and dark comedy that the critics have also highlighted. The text portrays a mother who breaks under the weight of traumatic experiences, a father who settles into silence, and a son who carries the burden of the past into his own life. It is precisely this generational thread that makes the material so compelling: war does not end with a ceasefire but continues to work in souls.

Dance theater as physical memory

The realization as dance theater gives the material an additional layer. Where words reach their limit, the body takes over the storytelling: tension, defense, rigidity, outbreak. The choreography condenses inner states into visible movements and makes the invisible cracks of a family physically palpable in the stage experience. In the theater's chamber space arises that intimacy for which the house is known: no distanced watching, but breathing together in the same room.

The kleine theater as a fitting resonance space

The kleine theater – KAMMERSPIELE Landshut is regarded as an intimate venue for modern and emotional classic productions as well as contemporary drama. The historical space at Bauhofstraße 1 specifically supports works that rely on condensation, precise acting, and immediate theater atmosphere. The architecture of the house provides a concentrated setting in which every gesture, every glance, and every lighting mood carries weight.

An evening for audiences willing to be touched

This performance promises no easy theater but an evening that resonates. Those who engage with this dance theater experience a staging about loss, memory, and the question of how much reality a family can endure. The combination of literary source material, physical expressiveness, and the special closeness of the Landshut chamber play makes this date a cultural highlight of early summer.

The audience can expect a dense, moving, and intelligent theater work that lingers in the mind. Anyone seeking strong stage art with emotional depth should experience this evening live.

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Sources:

• kleines theater KAMMERSPIELE Landshut – Performance Dates
• kleines theater KAMMERSPIELE Landshut – Homepage
• kleines theater KAMMERSPIELE Landshut – Directions
• kleines theater KAMMERSPIELE Landshut – Prices
• BR.de – Tijan Sila: The Day My Mother Went Crazy
• tagesschau.de – Tijan Sila wins Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• City of Konstanz – Cultural Fund 2025
• tanznetz.de – Review of the dance theater adaptation