Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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OHMYGOD HEY!

Days after leaving the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Aeron and I flew to West Germany for Ruhrtriennale, an Arts festival taking place across repurposed industrial sites in the Ruhr region of the country.

The festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary next year, is overseen in 2026 for the final time by Ivo Van Hove, and included amongst its programming a new musical called Rebel Rebel, starring Diego Andres Rodriguez, Ari Notartomaso, and Daniel Donskoy, using the music of David Bowie. As well as this, I saw Europa, a Polish written adaptation of a play by Wajdi Mouawad.

While we were in town, we couldn't also took the opportunity to see the musical Romeo und Julia: Liebe ist Alles, experience an evening in Dusseldorf, and head back to the long-running production of Starlight Express in Bochum.

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00:00:00 | introduction
00:00:56 | an evening in Dusseldorf
00:21:46 | Starlight Express in Bochum
00:43:17 | Romeo und Julia: Liebe ist Alles
01:09:09 | Ruhrtriennale: Europa / Rebel Rebel
01:38:59 | conclusion

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