Chawwerusch Theater: ALTE SORTEN

In the organizer's words:

Underage Sally has run away from a psychiatric ward. On a country road, she meets Liss, a woman in her mid-fifties who runs a farm on her own. She takes the runaway in temporarily. Neither of them talk much, they are rather loners and outsiders. As Liss leaves Sally alone, neither wanting to educate her or make her better, the young woman stays on the farm. She begins to work for herself, picking potatoes and old varieties of fruit, opening up her senses and herself.

When the two of them enter the pear orchard behind the house one September day, Sally thinks she is in paradise: Here, the trees have been growing as they want for a long time, no one is forcing them to grow straight, she exclaims enthusiastically to Liss: "By simply letting everything grow, this has become a magic garden." And Liss begins to explain what it's all about ... More and more buried memories come to light. Soon the quiet days are over and events come thick and fast.

Exciting, almost thriller-like elements, quiet and light moments, highly dramatic events and hopeful moments alternate. "Alte Sorten" uses strong, raw tones and touching images to show the quiet rapprochement and departure of two unadjusted, uprooted, but also freedom-loving women.

The novel by Ewald Arenz, bestseller of the year (Spiegel Liste) for two years, is made for the stage!