Name: Dirty Hands / The Just
Start: 2026-07-11T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-12T00:00:00+02:00
Location: Theater im Antoniushaus

A double evening about morality, power, and the price of conviction

With Dirty Hands / The Just, the Theater Regensburg presents two existentialist classics in a gripping double evening that discusses political thought and human responsibility with sharp stage clarity. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus provide no comfortable answers but an imaginative tension between revolution, violence, and conscience.

When ideals collide with reality

In Sartre's Dirty Hands, the revolution becomes a test: politics appears not as an abstract theory but as a dangerous struggle for power, loyalty, and betrayal. The ensemble of Theater Regensburg condenses these conflicts into an evening that merges the language of great drama with the precision of a contemporary piece.

Camus and the ethics of resistance

The Just opens the view to a radical cell that acts out of conviction yet fails under the ultimate consequence of human scruples. It is precisely in this friction that the strength of the evening lies: the direction does not point a moral finger but sharpens the ambivalence. Thus, an intense stage experience emerges, pulling the audience into the coldness of decision and the heat of the moment.

Direction with political force

Antje Thoms shapes the double evening with purposeful directorial work and a clear dramatic line. The production thrives on the tension between intellectual sharpness and emotional unrest, from scenes that act like flashes on a world overwhelmed by ideologies. Set design, lighting, and sound design create an atmosphere in which every decision carries weight.

Theater atmosphere in the Antoniushaus

The Antoniushaus provides the appropriate framework for this material: concentrated, approachable, and acoustically built for effect. The evening unfolds its power particularly where the audience immediately experiences the pauses, glances, and breaks of the characters. It is precisely here that the theater atmosphere emerges, making great acting palpable.

Why this evening stays with you

Anyone interested in political theater, French drama, and timeless conflicts between morality and action will experience a particularly dense evening here. Dirty Hands / The Just challenges, rubs against the fundamental questions of society, and rewards with an intense, intelligent, and highly relevant theater experience. A must-see live.