Crowds of season ticket holders are turning away from the theater because there are hardly any classics in the program – and if they are, then they are no longer played classically and faithfully to the text (Stemann slyly calls this “on sight”). In the background, the directors assume a general reluctance to attend cultural events, also due to Corona, and that many probably wanted “more of the old” given the difficult times, that a generational change is underway and the criticism is politically motivated because some didn’t like their diversity programs. And sometimes things just take time.
