OASE IM PARADIES

In the organizer's words:

... 30 years later | A production by Anka Baier-Liebe and Holger Bey

"Put your childhood in your pocket and run!"

"Dream, reality and memory combine to create a synthesis of dance and drama. A small, defiant creature between the not-yet and the but-yet enters the stage, a shovel in one hand and a suitcase full of fantasy in the other. Her world is the sandpit and the sandpit is a whole world. To discover; to be sheltered; to feel like getting involved; to play; to expose oneself; to dream - a secret, a longing, an oasis in paradise." (Announcement text from 1991)

A young woman remembers her childhood and plays through her life in "Oasis in Paradise". The play was written over 30 years ago. Anka Baier-Liebe had just graduated from drama school and Holger Bey was at the end of his choreography studies. Both also studied ballet and artistic dance at the Palucca School. In 1994, "Oasis in Paradise" was one of the opening productions of the Schaubühne Lindenfels, of which Anka is a co-founder.
This piece - a balancing act between harmony and rebelliousness, between melancholy and irony - was admired in the post-reunification years as a shining gem of vitality. After its great success, the idea was born to perform it again 30 years later. Not as a one-to-one reconstruction, but in the field of tension of maturity. Now, between the no-longer and the still, the same woman remembers it again.

"Dreamlike - play it again, Anka!" (LVZ 1994) was the wish of the audience at the time. In 2022, the time had finally come: we celebrated a new premiere - and now, for the Schaubühne's 30th birthday in September, three more performances will follow.

Performance: Anka Baier-Liebe
Choreography and sounds: Holger Bey
Music: Franz Schubert, Antonio Vivaldi, Ondřej Havelka, Rodrigo Leão, Holger Bey

A co-production with the Schaubühne Lindenfels, based on the production by Anka Baier and Holger Bey from 1991, a production of the Theaterhaus Jena.

Price information:

Tickets soon at the Schaubühne, here online and at all Reservix box offices: 18 / 12 (reduced) euros