Massacre in The Toy Country

Junges theatre begins the Festival " 5x Macbeth " with urkomischem doll theatre. Specialguests: Mister and Missis Smile as title heroes

" Macbeth ". Shortest and most closed of Shakespeares dramas and agony of whole generations of upper stage pupils in the English performance course. A nightmareful inferno of tremendous bildnerischer density.

The genialische play around power, greed up to the insanity and the sinnliche Erotik of the bad one is starting point for the current meeting series " 5x Macbeth " of the boy theatre, which presents most diverse szenische conversions of the drama material from view of the free scene. " Macbeth " today one dances, one sings as Karaoke or - as in the prelude before-of yesterday - to the skurrilen plastic doll play.

For " the Tiny Ninja theatre " from New York is mentioned the machtgeile Macbeth a four centimeter small plastic man, Mr. Smile. Its utterance " ALL is but toys ", " everything is not anything as Tand ", it is seriously taken, if over one hundred small toy figures, apparently freshly slipped out of the Ueberraschungsei, the tragedy in the miniature format to represent.

The slogan " small roles, only small actors " the drama at this point does not become faithful the zynischen and err-funny off theatre caper. Past the times of rumzickenden and Gage devouring actors. The artificial participants, it are itself almost for nothing too unfortunate.

Director and player Dov Weinstein are old around the 35 years. But if it goes into action, it works like manisch in the Playmobil play deepened seven-year-olds: The tiny Protagonisten from plastics will become over the stage geschleift, in a chaotic battle simulation finally " the Englishmen " against " the Scots " up-mixed - victims pile up themselves to a multicolored plastic heap, in order to then land after short process in the play crate. An issue of the unfeinen type.

The Theatermacher actually sees itself as a rescuer of the entehrten Figuerchen, help them faraway to fame in the searchlight beam from the schnoeden existence in setting boxes: " I saw these tiny Ninja figures in chewing rubber machines distributed over the whole city, but nobody used her, in order to play classical theatre. Something had to be done. "

He did it. And how. " Macbeth " in the high-speed run. Rapidly and err-funny it happens. An internal message hunts the next in the 40-minuetigen doll Show. Weinstein rattert the classical text afterwards-come in " finest old " British in such a manner fast down, that one with the laughter sometimes not at all. The different roles and effects intoniert he auf's Trefflichste, sometimes reminds of inbruenstige child's voices if her when playing police sirens imitate.

With toy binoculars the Gewusel on that can equipped be pursued about a times 0.5 to meter small playground, a black desk, EN detail. The much-busy doll player sits behind it.

At the end the plastic heading of Macbeth rolls and with a flashlight is blood-redly angeleuchtet. Mini Macduff killed it and again-preserve-created thus the order in the toy world. Even if sometimes it happens very brutally: Guaranteed no participant came to damage - apart perhaps from a few scratches in the multicolored lacquer.

Roland Roedermund

Still Tuesday and Wednesday, in each case at 20 o'clock and 21,30 o'clock in the boy theatre in the goods station

taz Bremen No. 6656 of 22.1.2002, page 23, 50 lines (comment), Roland Roedermund

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