The days are getting shorter, the evenings colder, and Halloween is just around the corner. Time for stories that get under your skin. What scares us? Where does the uncanny begin, and are monsters really always the others?

Between horror films and the abysses of history, threatening visions of the future and grotesque games with language and power, we encounter the darker sides of our reality. We explore how people become monsters, how social conventions shape the way we think, and how quickly an apparently peaceful world can fall apart. Sometimes with black humour, sometimes unsettling, sometimes taking us on a journey to the limits of what we can imagine.

If you’re looking for something to do in Cologne around Halloween, Schauspiel Köln offers theatre for long autumn evenings. For everyone who would rather explore the abysses of the world on stage than go looking for them in the dark outside.