World Premiere

Text & Direction: Gernot Grünewald
Design: Michael Köpke
Music: Daniel Sapir
Light: Tim Schulten
Dramaturgy: Sabrina Bohl
With: Hannah Aulepp, Lilly Rose Barshy, Cosi Beez, Paul Bünger, Paris Phillip Deuter, Edin Emeri, Fanny Hilken, Thorge Just, Noah Jonatan Kappe, Rieke Klaßen, Ben Klee, Jeanne Catherine Köster, Joop Naumann, Luis Nowotny, Carla Anna Njine, René Rönitz
Duration: 80 min.
Age: 14+

Sat, April 25 - 7.00 PM
Sun, April 26 - 6.00 PM
THEATER AN DER PARKAUE, Bühne 1
in German with English surtitles

17 young people from Bremen explore how violence comes into being. As representatives of similarly aged child soldiers they read from interviews, practice marching and shooting. The borderline between the sheltered youths and the young war machines slowly begins to blur. Behave like a man! Kill if you want to survive! Stop thinking! The sentences are hammered into their heads like machinegun bursts. They ask themselves: what has to happen to make me kill someone myself?

Child | SOLDIER is not only an intensive exploration of the theme itself but also a successful example of how to work with amateurs. The constant changes between the actors’ nearness and distance to the text, and the brilliant use of light, space, costume and rhythm are wonderfully impressive.

Gernot Grünewald studied at the Berlin Acting School "Ernst Busch" and subsequently worked in a number of theatres including the Deutsches Theater Berlin. In 2011 he completed his studies as a theatre director at the Hamburg Theatre Academy and since then he has been working as a freelance director.
The Young Actors department “Junge Akteure” at the Theater Bremen offers young theatre fans many opportunities to learn more about acting. Telling stories about the world in which they live and transforming them into artistic expressions are at the forefront of the work. The Young Actors department has existed since the 2012/2013 season.

http://www.theaterbremen.de

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