A hiker appears in the room: he has such a big hunger – like a lion. Suddenly, the organ music fills the whole room. Chicken-feathers, turtle-cancan and disturbing birdsong: all the animals slowly make themselves noticed and disturb the tranquility of this man… or is it perhaps the other way around?
“The Carnival of the Animals” is a choreographic and scenical concert for children from the age of 4 and adults. Based on the music composed by Camille Saint-Säens in 1886, the puppeteer Emilien Truche humorously and profoundly questions our relationship to our animality and to the wildness.
Concept and performance, Bau und Spiel: Emilien Truche
Organ-player: Michael Sattelberger
Outside-eye: Katja Bütchemann
Light-design: Doris Schopf
Performance duration approx. 40 minutes.
For people from 4 years old.
Funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste (Performing Arts Fund) with funds from the german federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the frame of the programm NEUSTART KULTUR.
Premiere: 12th September 2021 in the Hospitalkirche in Stuttgart (D)
Past Shows:
25th September 2022 – with Severin Zöhrer – St. Peter in Schwarzwald (D)
9th October 2022 – with Michael Sattelberger – Botnang (D)
10th and 11th June 2023 – with Michael Sattelberger – Figurentheater Osnabrück
20th october 2024 – with Severin Zöhrer – St. Martinskirche – Tauberbischofsheim
Stage Version Performance Dates (music performed on piano):
10th december 2022 – 3:00 PM – Premiere (stage version)
11th december 2022 – 3:00 PM – FITZ Stuttgart(D)
12th, 13th and 14th december 2022 – 10:00 AM – FITZ Stuttgart (D)
1st – 6th november 2023 – Theater Stadelhofen – Zurich (CH)
19th january 2025 – Schauwerk – Schaffhausen (CH)