A Midsummer Night’s Dream – rearranged

Christian Bochdansky und Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel

Company
Founded as a travelling theatre company in 1997, Wilde & Vogel have since toured their performances for children and adults to over twenty countries throughout the world – ever in search of new ways of linking different forms of artistic expression in their works. In 1997 they performed Hamletphantasie at UNIDRAM.

Performance
Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: A realm of the senses, a carnival of the strangest apparitions; a play of disorientation and confusion. Everyone wants to play Puck because it’s the nicest role. In fighting over the part, two love-crazed quick-change artists empty out all the drawers in the theatre and ply each other with filigreed figures and handcrafted kinetic objects. Their theatre of dreams is a wobbly world view where politics and philosophy blur into one another, where comedy becomes satire and vice versa. Electrically amplified guitar and violin accompany strange appearances by moody elves. The moon is a rusty colour; some things are unreservedly shot up in its direction, but it nevertheless illuminates even the most unfortunate nights of love.

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Director: Astrid Griesbach
Costumes & Performance: Christoph Bochdansky (Wien/Vienna), Michael Vogel
Live Music: Charlotte Wilde

When: Saturday, October 29th ; 9.00 pm; T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 1
Duration: 60 min.

A co-production between FITZ! Zentrum für Figurentheater, Stuttgart and Theater des Lachens, Berlin