Ton und Kirschen Wandertheater: Der Sturm *Berlin-Premiere*

In the organizer's words:

THE STORM by Shakespeare:

Why do we love Shakespeare? He was a poet of the people. A poet for all sections of the population. His work is a great inspiration for our touring theater. After HAMLET and the SONETS, Ton und Kirschen is now bringing Shakespeare's STURM to the stage. The text of Peter Brook's last theater production TEMPEST PROJECT was our template. It offers our international ensemble every opportunity to tell this story of revenge, forgiveness, rebellion and freedom with theater, puppetry and music.

CREATION OF THE TON UND KIRSCHEN THEATER:

Julie Biereye, Margarete Biereye, David Garlick, David Johnston, Rob Wyn Jones, Nelson Leon, Daisy Watkiss

ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Margarete Biereye & David Johnston

CLAY AND CHERRIES THEATER:

Ton und Kirschen is a touring theater group that was founded in the spring of 1992 and has been at home in Werder (Havel) ever since. The theater rehearsals take place on a plot of land in the Glindow district. The stage set is built here, and props, costumes, masks and puppets are also made there. From here, Ton und Kirschen takes its productions all over the state of Brandenburg. We install our stage and grandstand at the various venues. Every year we give guest performances in Potsdam and Berlin and in other German cities. We have also often been invited to theater festivals abroad. We have performed in many countries (Ireland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Austria and Switzerland and repeatedly in France) and on various continents (Asia, North Africa and several times in South America).

The theater's current nine-member ensemble comes from Australia, Germany, England, Wales, France and Colombia. Under the artistic direction of David Johnston and Margarete Biereye, who both have twenty years of theater experience with the Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, 24 productions have been created.

PRODUCTIONS:

The Hunchback from 1001 Nights (1992), Woyzeck by Georg Büchner (1993), The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni (1994), Don Quixote after Miguel Cervantes (1995), Pyramus and Thisbe after Ovid (1996), The Cherry Orchard by Anton Tchekov (1997), Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (1999), The Golem after Gustav Meyrink (2000), The Bacchantes by Euripides (2002), Middle of the Moment (2004), The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck (2005), Hamlet by William Shakespeare (2006), Perpetuum mobile (2008), King Ubu by Alfred Jarry (2009), La luna, luna for Federico Garcia Lorca (2011), Hans im Glück by Bertolt Brecht (2013), Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov (2014), Sonnets by Shakespeare (2015), Bartleby the Scrivener after Herman Melville (2016), In the blink of an eye (2017), The Mines of Falun by E.T.A Hoffmann (2018), The Legend of the Holy Drunkard by Joseph Roth (2020), The Bound Prometheus by Aeschylus (2021), The Open Door (2022), The Tempest (2023)

The theater group would like to thank the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg and the Potsdam/Mittelmark Cultural Office for their support.

Interested audience members will have the opportunity to find out more about the program and the artistic work of the ensemble on Thursday after the performance

Thu. 29.08: " Kartographie ", a new mediation format following the performance in cooperation with Theaterscoutings Berlin

https://www.theaterscoutings-berlin.de/programm/event/kartographie_zu_der_sturm_2004/