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