Theatre | The 10 Selected Productions
Murmel Murmel
By Dieter Roth
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Premiere 28 March 2012
Murmel Murmel © Thomas Aurin
The text has never been at the centre of Herbert Fritsch’s work. In “Murmel Murmel”, Fritsch has finally liberated himself, his actors and the audience from the burden of words and meaning: The result is 70 minutes of acrobatic physical theatre, splendid slapstick comedy and rhythmical dance gymnastics, supported by musician Ingo Günther and his marimbaphone.
If you want, you can see this as a satirical comment on today’s hysterical, overexcited turbo-society, saying nothing in an incessant blahblahblah – but that isn’t really necessary. Why not simply enjoy the sublime events on stage, Victoria Behr’s dazzling Sixties’ costumes, Fritsch’s psychedelically surging set, which joins the dance and sets the rhythm for this Dadaistic art trip? Fritsch reminds us what the theatre is first and foremost: a colourful show with live people. And yet, in all its hysteria, the constant mumblings of the actors, at times solo, at others in a chorus, have something meditative about them.
Directed by Herbert Fritsch
Stage design Herbert Fritsch
Costume design Victoria Behr
Music Ingo Günther
Lighting design Torsten König
Dramaturgy Sabrina Zwach
With:
Florian Anderer, Matthias Buss , Werner Eng, Ingo Günther, Jonas Hien, Simon Jensen, Wolfram Koch, Annika Meier, Anne Ratte-Polle, Bastian Reiber, Stefan Staudinger, Axel Wandtke
Murmel Murmel. Werner Eng, Matthias Buss, Axel Wandtke, Annika Meier, Bastian Reiber, Florian Anderer, Simon Jensen, Anne Ratte-Polle, Wolfram Koch, Stefan Staudinger, Jonas Hien
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Murmel Murmel. Matthias Buss, Stefan Staudinger, Simon Jensen, Jonas Hien, Florian Anderer, Anne Ratte-Polle, Axel Wandtke, Werner Eng, Annika Meier, Bastian Reiber, Wolfram Koch
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Murmel Murmel
© Thomas Aurin
Murmel Murmel
© Thomas Aurin
Murmel Murmel
© Thomas Aurin