WORLD PREMIERE
WRITTEN BY IRENE DISCHE AND COMPOSED BY DAVID ROBERT COLEMAN
WITH SUPPORT OF THE GERMAN FEDERAL CULTURAL FOUNDATION / KULTURSTIFTUNG DES BUNDES
THEATER BRANDENBURG, KLEISTFORUM FRANKFURT ODER, UCKERMÄRKISCHE BÜHNEN SCHWEDT, GERMANY 2019
A NEW STRUWWELPETER OF OUR TIMES, CREATED BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN NOVELIST IRENE DISCHE, BASED ON THE FAMOUS HISTORIC STRUWWELPETER TALES THE SHOCKHEADED PETER BY HEINRICH HOFFMANN.
A NEW MUSIC THEATRE FOR ONE AND ALL BY BRITISH COMPOSER DAVID ROBERT COLEMAN.
A BITTER FARCE AND A DAZZLING SHOW WITH A TOUCHING ENDING DIRECTED BY SOFIA SIMITZIS.
CHOO-CHOO, CHOO-CHOO TRAIN!
THE FUTURE LEFT ON A ONE-WAY TRAIN.
STATION'S EMPTY, NO WAY TO COMPLAIN,
THE FUTURE'S GONE AND WON'T COME AGAIN.
DIRECTOR: SOFIA SIMITZIS
STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN: INGA TIMM
VIDEO DESIGN: HETA MULTANEN
CONDUCTOR: MAX RENNE
STRUWWELPETER: NICOLAS ZIÉLINSKI, COUNTERTENOR
DR. HOFFMANN: HUBERT WILD, BARITONE
CASPARINA: SONIÁ GRANÉ, SOPRANO
PAULINA: LENA HASELMANN, MEZZO SOPRANO
HUNTER, EVIL FRIEDERICH: CHRISTIAN OLDENBURG, BARITONE
URSULA WEILER, SOLO FLUTE / DANIEL GÖRITZ, SOLO GUITAR / ALEXANDER GLÜCKSMANN, SOLO CLARINET
WITH THE ORCHESTRA OF THE BRANDENBURGER SYMPHONIKER
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER: URSULA WEILER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HETA MULTANEN AND DETLEF KURTH