Cie. Freaks und Fremde (D)
The Story of the Fox Who Lost His Mind
From 6 years | Duration: 65 minutes
ALTER SCHL8HOF WELS
Thursday March 13, 2025
|
3:30
p.m.
A pair of performers, a musician, and a world of living memories unfold a life story: Once upon a time, there was a fox who knew everything a fox needed to know. Those who know everything can live a long life, thought the fox, and he lived a long life full of adventures. But then the fox forgot that he was a fox...
The Düsseldorf author Martin Baltscheit wrote this story, portraying the issue of dementia with wit, empathy, and melancholy.
In his prime, the clever fox passes on his knowledge to the young ones, but eventually grows old and forgetful until he falls from a tree. And now, those who once fled from him mock him. Even the hunter’s dogs, whom he once outsmarted as a young Zorro, now threaten to make him an easy prey. However, the young foxes care for him and heal his wounds. Only his mind, they cannot heal, for the fox has lost it, and no one knows exactly where...
At the center of the stage stands a stuffed fox—a life lived, which plays out once again before the audience's eyes. Yet, the great clock that hangs above everything starts to falter, runs backwards, and time begins to crack.
In competition, complementing, and mirroring each other, the performers narrate, sing, dance, and reminisce through this adventurous life. The final adventure is forgetting, and the story ends as it began: with a foxtrot.
A production for an intergenerational audience.
About the Group:
Sabine Köhler and Heiki Ikkola have been working together as a company since 2006, bringing together theater makers, visual artists, and musicians into teams that experiment with and develop work and life strategies over long periods of time. The credo of their theater work is to engage with the unfamiliar, the other, the unknown, the impossible. The work of the company knows no genre boundaries and yet is not a miscellaneous assortment.
The expression of *Freaks und Fremde* always has its origins in puppetry. Sabine Köhler and Heiki Ikkola learned their craft at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. In their work, they confront uncomfortable questions and problems, for which they rarely have answers or solutions. They seek lively social dialogue and open themselves up to a variety of ways of thinking and art forms, even outside the protective walls of theaters and performance spaces.
Art Award of the City of Dresden.
