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Saturday evening with the Gomera Street Band
Street music We only want to play! Short description: could it be that this is the best band of the world? (Leonard Mc Cormack) Influences: Wine, coffee, light and sea Hometown: Playa del Valle Gran Rey Members: Robby Lederer, Erno, Smul Meier, Vikerl, Gerd Kaulard, Doris Valentin, Alex Tod, Andi Schacher, Chris Frick, Florian Weiß, […]
Last but not least: The wild Bunch | Germany
Request Stop, Herold Pinter A woman is waiting for the bus at a bus station in London. Other people join her – a man, a business woman, a boxer, a singer, a child and a gentleman. After a failed approach of the woman to communicate with the others – based on the attempt to protect […]
Opponents at the Stade de France – united in Lingenau: Leikfélag Hafnarfjarðar | Iceland
Ubu Rei/King Ubu Instigated by his wife Mère Ubu, Père Ubu kills the Polish King and his family in order to come to power. In doing so, he is encouraged by captain Bordure. The new King tyrannises the population – this induces Bordure to set the Russian tsar Alexis against Père Ubu. Whereas the acting […]
Better hands tied as the will: Grenzlandbühne Leopoldschlag | Austria
Jägerstätter Franz Jägerstätter is an Austrian farmer in the Second World War. Being brave and resolute he refuses military service for national socialists – knowing the possible fatal consequences. The rural society reacts differently: His decision causes secret admiration but also misunderstanding. Grenzlandbühne has been existing since 1998 in its current form. The summer theatre […]
Seniors theater meets children’s theater: Theater of Generations | Hungary
Bastien und Bastienne The sheperdess Bastienne visits the fortune-teller of the village, Colas. She asks him for advice as she fears that her boyfriend Bastien is attracted to another woman. Bastien also visits the fortune-teller and informs him that he wants to ask for Bastienne’s hand. Colas, however, lies at him and tells him that […]
For young and old part 2: Bamat Hutzot | Israel
Street Theater Saucy Saucepans/Shir Hasirim There are five mannequins that are left alone overnight. They have a try at cooking and soon get to know that they act really clumsily. They are bad at cooking – but they are good at making noise. TEEN STAGE is the central youth theatre in Jerusalem. The actors work […]
Outlandishly funny and absurd: Theater Wagabunt | Austria
Auguste Bolte When the story “Auguste Bolte” by Kurt Schwitters is on programme, we look back to an era in which artists ran against politics and the petit bourgeois spirit and thereby counted on absurdity. There is as much to laugh as to think, the story, which may only end in a moving theatre evening […]
Strawanz and dance with Ski-Schuh-Tennis Orchestra
Reggae-Ska-Dub-Polka A pacifist cobblestone hail of feelings kindles the fire of hope! It’s a kind of reggae ska Balkan dub open source project. Every creature on earth is invited to spread the message of SSTO with clenched fists and burning hearts to the winds. The first percussive drumbeats of the orchestra are accompanied by a […]
With rhythm and lyricism: ADJAP Group | Cameroons
Cry of the Forest/Le Crie de la Forêt The songs – sung and theatrically performed by the ADJAP Group – deal with the cultural differences of the tribes in Africa. With the aid of rhythm and poetry the five women ask themselves questions on the extensively varying identity, the secret of life and humanity. The […]
Cozy ending with the BradlBerg MUSIG
Frühschoppen | Free entry Old songs, combined with the new, played by young, clever musicians. Four Bregenzerwälder, a Dornbirn and one Tyrolean girl are Musicians from head to toe and their heart beats for traditional music. They have joined forces to give a fresh breeze to the folc music in Vorarlberg. With great enthusiasm they […]
You will never be able to sit in a theater „only so“: R+R Theater | Switzerland
The finest hour of Josef Bieder The intendant is again unavailable! Typical. What are we going to do now? Setting: a fully-occupied theatre. Actors: Josef Bieder, head property man. The talented actor prepares the stage for a play on the following day. Suddenly he realises that the seating rows are all occupied. Josef Bieder, an […]
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