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  • Radau! / Raising Hell!


    Radau_1_Foto_Christian_Brachwitz

    © Christian Brachwitz

    based on a radio play by Walter Benjamin
    THEATER AN DER PARKAUE /
    Junges Staatstheater Berlin

    Directed and designed by Thomas Fiedler Costumes Katja Schmidt Music Anton Berman Dramaturgy Amelie Mallmann Cast Anton Berman, Lutz Dechant, Johannes Hendrik Langer, Elisabeth Heckel, Andrej von Sallwitz

    TUE april 23, 8 pm
    WEd april 24, 11 am 

    Theater an der Parkaue ° Bühne 1
    60 min ° Age: 7 upwards

    “Thanks to the director and the actors “Raising Hell!” is a breathless, fast moving, comically anarchic celebration which will give huge pleasure to both children and adults.” (from the vote by Andrea Zagorski)

    SYNOPSIS

    Early in the morning Kasperl is sent by his wife to buy fish. In the fog he bumps into Maulschmidt, the director of the radio station. Maulschmidt invites Kasperl, the “children’s friend” to come into the studio and do a broadcast. Kasperl uses the broadcast to bombard Seppel with a tirade of insults for telling tales about him because he went stealing plums. Maulschmidt is outraged that Kasperl has abused the radio station in such a way. Kasperl flees and a wild chase begins via the railway station, the market, past a carousel, to the fortune teller Lipsuslapsus, until they all end up in the zoo. Kasperl lures them into the lion’s cage. By raising hell he succeeds in losing his pursuers and races home in a taxi at breakneck speed.

    “Radau!” takes the audience into a world of noise and sound. The show is set in a radio studio and all the noises are produced by the actors. The headlong chase is accompanied by live music and slapstick interludes.

    In 2011 the production was awarded the Ikarus, the Berlin theatre prize for outstanding theatrical productions for young people.

    Supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds HKF.

    Radau_2_Foto_Christian_Brachwitz

    © Christian Brachwitz

    The THEATER AN DER PARKAUE (founded in 1950) is the largest state theatre for young people in Germany. The theatre has presented shows from its multifaceted repertoire in theatres all over Europe. One of the basic principles of the theatre is to open itself to the everyday reality, opinions and interests of young people, and this is reflected in the huge amount of work it devotes to theatre-in-education. The THEATER AN DER PARKAUE was one of the first young people’s theatres to cooperate with independent performance groups.

    www.parkaue.de