A production of the fringe ensemble in collaboration with phoenix5

Texts by Ivo Briedis, Kaśka Bryla, Ceren Ercan, Lothar Kittstein (live writing), Anthony Kibsa Ouédraogo and Lewis Carroll

With Andreas Meidinger, Bettina Marugg, Julia Goldberg, Philip Schlomm and special guest Harald Redmer
Director: Frank Heuel
Stage, costumes, video: Annika Ley
Musical direction Helmut Buntjer
Sounds
Andreas Meidinger
Assistant Director Lutz Ackermann
Internship Katharina Krämer

Production Management Svenja Pauka
Public Relations Claudia Grönemeyer

Performance dates

Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn
Fri 19 January 2024, 8 pm
Sat 20 January 2024, 8 pm
Sun 21 January 2024, 6 pm

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The fringe ensemble takes the next step with its “Wunderland”, which was created in the spring and acclaimed by the audience. Alice from the story “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, on which the project is based, experiences a world in which, from one moment to the next, nothing is as it was before: logic, values, perception, even the meaning of words is no longer reliable. That sounds like something we experience every day in today’s post-factual age.

This is the occasion and inspiration for the “Wunderland” authors from a total of 5 countries to write new texts for us, to open a door into their world that has gone off the rails.

What remains for the theater, which always wants to be a mirror of the world, if the understanding of the world as a tangible reality is increasingly dissolving? The answer is obvious – the commitment in the play, in the relationship with the audience, the value of the spoken, imagined word. We make the illusion as such, the play as such, clear and create an understanding of reality together with the audience.

So, like Alice, we let ourselves fall down the rabbit hole – headfirst into a perhaps irritating, perhaps grotesque, perhaps playful contemplation of a world turned upside down – until we ask ourselves, in the words of the Hatter: “Have I lost my mind?” And we might be reassured by Alice’s words: “I’m afraid so. You’re out of your mind. But I’ll tell you something: that’s what makes the best.”

Let’s laugh together!

Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Sciences of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal City of Bonn, Cultural Office of the City of Münster, Goethe Institute.

Photo: Tanja Evers