Das Kind träumt

In the organizer's words:

Translated from the Hebrew by Matthias Naumann

A universal tale about the urgent search for empathy and humanity in a world torn apart by war.

What was just unimaginable happens: Gunmen break into a house in the middle of the night. The child, who has just been sleeping peacefully, is driven from his home. Mother and child get on board a ship that is supposed to offer them protection, but cannot find a safe haven. In their search for asylum, they appeal to solidarity and empathy and look into the different faces of humanity; generosity and malice, hope and powerlessness look back. And the child is always accompanied by the question: is this reality or a bad dream?

"The Child Dreams" is inspired by the real-life story of the ship St. Louis, which sought asylum from the horrors of National Socialism in Cuba in 1939, was turned away and forced to return to Europe. In 1993, Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin portrays flight and expulsion as universal experiences with dark humor and in the Brechtian tradition of alienation. Through the precise examination of human relationships in extreme situations, the play reads as an apt commentary on the present day in the face of increasingly restrictive immigration and refugee policies worldwide. Together with a large ensemble, director Alexander Riemenschneider gives shape to the (dream) images of flight and war and examines the power of theater to provide comfort.

Nominated for the German Theater Award DER FAUST 2023 in the category staging theater for young audiences and for the IKARUS Theater Award 2023 in the category youth theater.

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3.00 - 14.00€