ROUND PEOPLE

Idea: Kristina Feix, Johannes Volkmann
Stage direction: Jörg Baesecke

Promoted by: Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

For children (from 5 years) and adults

Paper is the main character in this unusual visual production. Supporting characters are scissors and hands, light and shadows, music and visual art. Two performers interact in front, behind, through and with the paper to create theirstory:
A philosophical table about round people who were created by the Gods to fill their empty plates at the dinner table. Forget conventional definitions of theatre and art and drive into the German avantgarde group’s highly inspirational world of paper theater.

An explosion of ideas, ertistry, musik and humour with paper! Watch as the story is cut out of paper. Round People is a philosophical tale originally tould round the dinner table by the Philosophers of Aristophanes: A very long time ago, the Gods sat down to eat, but their plates were empty. They create the round people to fill their plates. These creatures were both male and female with for arms, four legs and two heads.

Paper theater is an unusual and inspirational mix of shadows, musik, light and visual arts. This highly visual story both appears on and emerges from a tablecloth made of paper.