Augenblick mal! 2015

German Premiere

Text: David Paquet, translated from Franco-Canadian
by Frank Weigand
Direction: Ronny Jakubaschk
Design: Vera Koch
Music: Bastian Bandt
Dramaturgy: Lars Krüger
With: Elisabeth Fues, Katja Göhler, Martin Klemm, Kevin Körber,
Sven Reese, Matthias Walter, Anna-Lena Zühlke
Duration: 80 min.
Age: 14+

Tue, April 21 - 6.30 PM
Wed, April 22 - 10.00 AM & 2.00 PM
THEATER AN DER PARKAUE, Bühne 2
in German with English surtitles

A young boy falls in love with an old woman who likes vodka. A girl eats worms to lose weight. Another boy pretends to be blind in order to get attention. A teacher wonders what he should do to change his life. They are all seeking fulfilment and change in their lives. Suddenly the breakthrough seems within reach. Enthusiastically and courageously the characters dare to tread into the unknown until the clock shows 2.14 pm and their life threads are violently severed.

2.14 pm holds our attention through the tension inherent in the step-by-step development of the characters’ individual stories. It shows the everyday catastrophes that make life difficult and simultaneously intensive. The author does not linger in bewilderment at the killing spree but focuses on the stories of the victims.

For its production of 2.14 pm the Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig was awarded the Young People’s Jury prize in September 2014 at the first ever WILDWECHSEL Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People at the Theater Nordhausen (Thuringia).

Ronny Jakubaschk has been working as a freelance director since 2009, e.g. for the Theater Basel, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and Oper Dortmund.
The Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig is the oldest theatre for children and young people in Germany. It will be celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2016. It was set up in 1946 by the Soviet military administration and opened with a production of Emile and the Detectives. With its huge range of programme for children, young people, young adults and families, and around 700 performances a season it is the most productive cultural facility in the city.

http://www.theaterderjungenweltleipzig.de/

>> click here to read the vote by the curator
Dirk Fröse for "2.14 pm"

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