Today I bake, tomorrow I brew, the day after tomorrow I fetch the queen her child; oh, how good that no one knows that my name is Rumpelstiltskin!
The young puppeteer Pauline Drünert and the brilliant musician Alexandra Lupidi tell the fairy tale of Rumpelstilzchen by the Brothers Grimm, the story of a young girl who was locked up in the castle by the king to turn straw into gold. Ilka Schönbein's production makes do with few props, but they are used all the more effectively and change their functions again and again. For example, an umbrella becomes a spinning wheel in the blink of an eye, with a braid coming loose and turning into spun gold. A fairy-tale delight for children ages 7 and up and their parents
."If we just pretended it was just a children's (show) play and lured the little and big people over with dancing and singing and sounding and took them with us to the land where little men dance around the fire, where miller's daughters become queens and straw turns to gold ..." (Ilka Schönbein)
THEATER MESCHUGGE
Darmstadt-based Ilka Schönbein studied with Stuttgart puppetry legend Albrecht Roser and spent around ten years on the road with various touring theatres before founding her own, Theater Meschugge, and setting off with her own productions. After directing numerous plays, most recently "Straw to Gold," she stands in "You know what? Then dance now!" she is back on stage after a break of several years.
Staging and Directing : Ilka SCHÖNBEIN
Music and play: Alexandra LUPIDI
Figure play: Pauline DRÜNERT
Composition: Alexandra LUPIDI
Figures: Ilka SCHÖNBEIN
Directing assistance: Anja SCHIMANSKI, Britta ARSTE
Lighting design and lighting: Anja SCHIMANSKI
Stage design : Suska KANZLER
Premiere September 2017 Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-
Mézières, France.
Further information: http://www.no-strings-attached.de/theater-meschugge/
