{"id":776,"date":"2010-09-05T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theater-triebwerk.de\/wordpress\/die-erde-ist-rund-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:51:42","slug":"die-erde-ist-rund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theater-triebwerk.de\/wordpress\/en\/die-erde-ist-rund\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth is round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on a children\u2019s story by Peter Bichsel
\nFor adults and children aged 6+<\/p>\n

Any child can tell you that the earth is round! But how do we know? We have read about it, we have been told, we have seen it in the cinema. But no one has ever seen it with their own eyes, experienced it or tested it out. \u2018The Earth is round\u2019 is a story by Peter Bichsel about an old man who didn\u2019t have much to do and so spent his time rethinking everything that he already knew. His doubts led him to plan a trip that would take him on a straight path around the globe.
\nBut the simplest things are often the hardest. This is what the two performers and musicians experience themselves once they let themselves in for circumnavigating the earth in a game of make-belief. With Bichsel\u2019s text in their pocket they set off on their journey but go astray, wind up in dead-ends and discover untrodden paths.
\nWhat do I know? What can I believe? What opportunities for experience and knowledge do I have? Which path will take me there? Or should I refrain from asking these questions and simply set off?
\nThis voyage of exploration to the most remote corner of the human imagination is presented in a suspense-packed mixture of quizzical hesitation and departure, musical activity and verbal reflection. <\/p>\n

Cello: Uwe Schade
\nComputer: Heino Sellhorn
\nStage direction: Johanna Stapelfeldt
\nScenography: Melanie Huke
\nStagecraft: Alexander Tripitsis<\/p>\n

Dramatisation rights for \u2018Kindergeschichten\u2018 by Peter Bichsel held by the publishers Kiepenheuer B\u00fchnenvertrieb. Sponsored by Stiftung Niedersachsen and the federal state of Lower Saxony. Winner of the third prize at the Hamburg Children\u2019s Theatre Festival 2011. <\/p>\n

Press + Testimonials
\n<\/strong> In this stage adaptation the free drama collective \u2018Theater Triebwerk\u2018 has conjured up a small theatrical collage. Well-tempered it lingers on the threshold between the transfer of knowledge, sensual experience and narration.
\nIt is about broadening one\u2019s own horizon, about physical and mental flexibility and \u2013 with carefully designed video projections of silent movie clips and poetic images \u2013 about writing history. A short trip around the world in just one hour.
\nHildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung – 13 September 2010<\/p>\n

In Theater Triebwerk\u2019s production \u2018The Earth is round\u2019, based on a children\u2019s story by Peter Bichsel, they demonstrate yet again what theatre can mean to children \u2013 and not only to them: aspirations, suspense, entertainment and art \u2013 educating our vision and listening, in an encounter of artists and audience. It is joyous narrative theatre that sharpens the senses, stimulates thought and at the end of the show leaves the audience with new impressions. <\/em>Statement by the jury at the presentation of the Hamburg Children\u2019s Theatre Prize \u2013 19 June 2011<\/p>\n

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