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    LIQUIDs_1_Foto_Michael_Coester

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    Concept and development: Matthias Anton, Zoe Laughlin, Sibylle Peters
    FUNDUS THEATER / Forschungstheater, Hamburg
    a didactic play about fluids

    Director Sibylle Peters Music Tanja Gwiasda Cast Matthias Anton, Hannah Kowalski Rights FUNDUS THEATER / Forschungstheater, Hamburg

    FRI April 26, 10 am & 2 pm
    SAT April 27, 11 am & 3 pm
    SUN April 28, 11 am & 4 pm

    THEATER AN DER PARKAUE ° Bühne 3
    50 min ° Age: from 2 to 10

    “The theatre is turned into a place in which everyone – scientists, artists and spectators – is turned into a researcher with every new encounter, and where everyone is allowed to use his or her knowledge to make experiments.” (from the vote by Alexandra Luise Gesch)

    Synopsis

    40 watering cans and 10 kilos of dry ice stand ready. The audience sits around a pond which steams, bubbles and spits. And it smells of strawberry ice cream! The production is an attempt to explore the secrets of different types of fluids with younger audiences. How is it possible to use steam to stop soap bubbles from floating down to the ground? What sort of fluids are flowing through our own bodies? Does water makes things sticky or not? The two performers Matthias and Hannah conduct a series of different experiments in which they whet their audience’s appetite for more knowledge and evoke gasps of amazement with each new discovery. “Eh?! That’s not possible!” is one of the most common reactions during the show. But it soon proves possible thanks to hands-on experiments and tests.

    LIQUIDs is theatrical science in the best sense of the word. It reveals the processes behind research. That said, the show is not simply a po-faced laboratory but uses all the theatrical means available to make things as exciting as possible, including light, sound and stunning stories.

    LIQUIDs_2_Foto_Michael_Coester

    © Michael Coester

    The Hamburg FUNDUS THEATRE has had a section entitled “Research Theatre” since 2002. The theatre is the first of its kind is to have its own laboratory for theatrical research. In September 2011 it moved into the first ever German laboratory entirely dedicated to research. Young people, artists and scientists join forces to research current social phenomena. In 2012 the Research Theatre was awarded the Cultural Education Prize promoted by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

    www.fundus-theater.de