Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Barker

For his next piece for the Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Barak Marshall once again chooses a scenario from a humorously distorted past. BARKER is aimed at an audience of all generations, with a fairy-tale narrative style, magic and puppet tricks as well as plenty of interaction with the audience - and with sophisticated content: The play is set in the 1920s, not long after the Russian Revolution, in a climate of paranoia before the Red Terror. Inspired by the wild plots of vaudeville theater, the work of Jewish author and illustrator Bruno Schulz (The Cinnamon Shops) and Jean Genet's The Maids, the play tells the story of a rebellion: six servants rehearse a revolt against their rule - which is always invisible to the audience. Barak Marshall does not stage a gloomy social drama here, but a wittily exaggerated, hopeful journey to freedom, accompanied by the lively music of the Balkans.