For more than 50 years, the Theater am Hechtplatz has stood for high-class entertainment. The cobblestones in the foyer are reminiscent of the former taxi stand, which the architect Ernst Gysel integrated into the theatre building in 1959 on behalf ...
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The Final Beginning
Leni Plöchl
Leni Plöchl has a new calling: funeral orator. She is in the middle of her training and has already completed a distance-learning degree in theology, something her largely atheist family and her friends find downright embarrassing. But perhaps she feels it most of all herself. With this latest new beginning – for the time being, at least – she faces some completely unexpected challenges. She’d imagined things would be different.
Her work is increasingly shifting between black humour and existential confusion: instead of burying people, she now comforts animals before their final injection with a prayer designed to help their guilt-ridden, single parents too. Instead of reciting significant Bible passages with dignity, she packages prayers as adventurous true-crime episodes to win over the bereaved.
She used to be a clown. That wasn’t easy either. What remains are timing, insecurity and a questionable relationship with dignity. ‘The Last Beginning’ is an evening full of absurd situations, in which the character stumbles through various lives and professionalism serves merely as a comical façade.
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Thursday, May 20, 2027
19:30
Theater am Hechtplatz
Hechtplatz 7
8001 Zürich
+41 (0)44 415 15 15
Accessibility:
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Mobility
Tickets
You can reserve wheelchair spaces directly in our ticketing system. Our box office team will then contact you for more detailed information about the size of your wheelchair and provide you with further information.
Seats
The wheelchair space, cloakroom and our theatre bar are barrier-free. The wheelchair space and the space for the accompanying person are located near the stage (rows 1-4), directly by the door and can be requested in the ticket shop or at the theatre box office. As soon as we have received your enquiry, our box office team will contact you to enquire about the dimensions of the wheelchair and determine the optimum seating solution based on this.
Toilets
There is a spacious, barrier-free WC at Limmatquai 4 directly behind the theatre (Zürcherhof 1st floor, next to the lift) and a Züri-WC at Bellevue (at the back between the VBZ ticket office and Deli-Snack on the Bellevue service island). Both are accessible with a Eurokey. If you need assistance from the theatre team when going to the barrier-free WC or would like to use one during the interval, please report to the cloakroom.
Sight
For people with a visual impairment, we recommend a seat in rows 1 to 3.
Blind dogs
Blind dogs may be taken into the theatre. Please either book seats in the ticket shop on the far left of the wall or on the far right of the door or contact the theatre box office. We are also happy to place guide dogs outside the theatre in a quiet place.
Ticketing
Our ticketing system is not yet barrier-free. To order tickets, please contact our theatre box office directly: Tel. +41 44 415 15 15 (free of charge) / Tue - Sat, 4 - 7 pm
Hearing
For people with a hearing impairment, we recommend a seat in rows 1 to 3.
Do you have any questions? Please contact Christina Teuber, co-director of the theatre at Hechtplatz:
Email: christina.teuber@zuerich.ch
Phone: +41 44 412 54 59 (available Tue, Wed, Thu, 10 am - 5 pm)
