"War and Peace" at the Magdeburg Theatre: Just Let Go of Everything

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Charly Hübner is the young director of the year at the theater at the age of 52: "War and Peace" in Magdeburg is a crackling, overboarding, ultimately comforting theatre explosion for peace.

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It starts in Grandma's apartment – Charly Hübner proves in Magdeburg with his directorial debut and with an excellent ensemble how well Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" can be brought to the stage No, this low-threshold entry can't possibly come from Leo Tolstoi himself or from Roland Schimmelpfennig – who gave the new director Charly Hübner free hand for his stage version – had been so thought-out: Per Dietrich, a suspicious trio sneaks into a Bie…