PAPILLONS | Die Anprobe (Musiktheaterproduktion)

In the organizer's words:

After their great success in summer 2024 - with five sold-out performances of "Die Anprobe"- DIE PAPILLONS will play two additional dates in Berlin.The musical theater ensemble's production is recommended by "NO LIMITS Disability & Performing Arts Festival" https://www.no-limits-festival.de/intro/#friends-anprobe

"No famous actors or opera singers play in the play Die Anprobe, but senior citizens from the nursing home "Am Kreuzberg". (...) And yet Die Anprobe
by the theater ensemble PAPILLONS is perhaps the most beautiful play of the current theater season. (...) A great, bizarre and touching evening. A play like life: sometimes hilarious, then melancholy enough to make you cry." (BZ | Björn Trautwein)

"The magic here comes from the lightness with which death is thematized as a transition to another world. (...) The children and the residents with dementia work together to experience slowness. (...) And all of a sudden, the sound of yodeling grows stronger from the gallery. (...) I haven't heard such pure, unadulterated yodeling for a long time! I could stay in this transition zone now. (taz | Katja Kollmann)

Supported by the Stefanie Arnold Foundation and Seidenspur e.V.

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What dress does the old person want to be remembered in? Which one has shaped and fulfilled him in life?

Eight children help the elderly to create unforgettable scenes that give them the strength to take a brief look into the world beyond.

The Fitting Room is the sixth production by Christine Vogt and her theater ensemble Papillons, which has been together for 887 years. PAPILLONS is the "extraordinary" and "wondrous" (SZ-Magazin) theater ensemble in the nursing home "Am Kreuzberg" with 11 mostly dementia sufferers and professional artists, founded in 2016 by Christine Vogt.

The PAPILLONS theater ensemble is sponsored by the Stiftung Unionhilfswerk Berlin.

Cast: Actors from the nursing home "Am Kreuzberg" Berlin and 8 children from various Berlin schools

Artistic direction/concept/direction: Christine Vogt

Live music/sound collages: Annika Hein (accordion)

Costumes/ stage/ conceptual collaboration: Silja Landsberg

Acting: Michael Hanemann

Technical direction: Sven Keufner

Projection: Anna Wörl

Assistant director: Anne Goldmann

Assistants for support during rehearsals:

Claudia Blaich, Petra Fock, Corinna Mundt, Ursula Schulz

Management of the nursing home: Sebastian Merkel

Head of care in the nursing home: Juliane Kaptain

Other participants: Nursing and care staff, relatives and parents of the children

Production: Stiftung Unionhilfswerk Berlin www.unionhilfswerk.de/papillons

Contact: Stefanie Wind, Head of Foundation Projects
0173/ 616 108 6 and www.grenzbereiche-theater.de

Take a look at our past event "INNENLEBEN" by PAPILLONS: