Media Mingle: ACHTUNG! Radical New Plays from Germany

Come out for a drink and witness the very first English presentation of another wildly poetic and topical German drama:

ACHTUNG! Radical New Plays from Germany is a new reading series which Miranda Calderon and Birgit Schreyer Duarte launched in 2025 at the Tranzac Club, co-hosted by the Goethe-Institut Toronto. We started it to publicly present the most innovative and edgy German plays Birgit has been translating into English over many years and that have not yet been seen in Toronto.
 
For its 2nd edition, we will be at Toronto’s Burdock Music Hall (an all-ages venue; 1184 Bloor St, (West of Dufferin), on Monday, March 30, 2026 @ 8-11pm.
 
The event will be PWYC at the door and include a Talk Back session in conversation 
with Martin Revermann (Professor of Classics and Theatre Studies at U of T)

Doors open @ 7:30pm
Reading starts @ 8pm
No Reservations needed.
 
We’ll be reading TROJANS by Ulrich Hub, a beautiful modern retelling of the legend of the Trojan Horse. Also for young audiences!
 
After ten years of horrific and senseless war in Troy, with no end in sight, the Trojans wake up one day to find the Greek enemy gone—except for one single soldier eager to surrender himself. And, a gigantic wooden horse on the beach, which the soldier says is a gift from the Gods. Should they bring it into their city? Throw it into the sea? They must decide what to believe and which values they want to live by in this new time of "peace".
 
Translated & Directed by Birgit Schreyer Duarte / Dramaturgy by Natalie McCallum / Performed by Miranda Calderon, Jesse Dwyer, Craig Lauzon, Anand Rajaram, Navtej Sandhu and TBC.
Produced by midnight snack and storm&stress (Miranda Calderon and Birgit Schreyer Duarte)
Co-hosted by / Translation supported by the Goethe-Institut Toronto
Poster Design by Louis Schreyer Duarte