Ton und Kirschen Wandertheater: ES WAR EINMAL und war auch nicht…

In the organizer's words:

IT WAS ONCE and it wasn't...

The origins of most fairy tales go back thousands of years. They have been passed down from generation to generation and, in all their simplicity, are rich in fantasy, violence, rough justice and wonder. Fairy tales are linked to the childhood and personal memories of each and every one of us. This is how Heinrich Heine remembers his childhood in Deutschland. A Winter's Tale of his nurse, who told him about the goose maid and the talking horse's head.
It is a comforting pleasure to hear the same fairy tale over and over again, magically leading us to a happy ending. Ton und Kirschen aims to use drama, music, dance, puppetry and masks to turn the magic, but also the warnings that lie in fairy tales, into a shared experience with the audience, in which the imagination of each individual spectator is given space. And - even what is not said has meaning.

Artistic direction Margarete Biereye, David Johnston
Play Margarete Biereye, Polina Borissova, Maximilian Friedel, David Johnston, Nelson Leon, Daisy Watkiss
Set design and lighting Daisy Watkiss
Puppet Nelson Leon, Daisy Watkiss
Horse, masks Josephine Biereye, Patrick Sims
Sound design Polina Borissova
Composition David Jonston and Polina Borissova
3 piano pieces by Georges Gurdjieff

Distribution Catherine Lauay

Sound and Cherries Theater
The Ton und Kirschen Theater was founded by Margarete Biereye and David Johnston in May 1992 in Glindow (near Potsdam) after 20 years of theater experience with the English Footsbarn Travelling Theatre. The theater rehearsals take place on a property 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 current 7-member ensemble of the theater comes from Germany, England, Wales, France and Colombia. Under the artistic direction of David Johnston and Margarete Biereye, 26 productions have been created.

PRODUCTIONS by Ton und Kirschen Wandertheater
The Hunchback from 1001 Nights (1992), Woyzeck by Georg Büchner (1993), The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni (1994), Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (1995), Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid (1996), The Cherry Orchard by Anton Tchekov (1997), Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (1999), The Golem by 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), Shakespeare's Sonnets (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), Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker by Joseph Roth (2020), Der gefesselte Prometheus by Aeschylus (2021), The open door (2022), Der Sturm by Shakespeare (2023), ES WAR EINMAL und war auch nicht... (Premiere : 2024, T-Werk Potsdam).

http://tonundkirschen.de

TRAILER

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. 28.08.: " Cartography ", a mediation format following the performance in cooperation with Theaterscoutings Berlin

The theater group would like to thank the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg for its support.

Price information:

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