From 1998 onwards, first steps have been taken together with the
composer for new music Friedemann Schmidt Mechau to reassess the
role that music plays in childrens' and juveniles' theatre in particular
and to change this role with the help of a new conception. "Auditive
theatre" became the combination of music and theatre which
do not mix music as soundtrack for a theatre play but which stand
side by side related to one subject, which appear simultaneously
and remain separately perceivable media at the same time. The terms
of harmony and ambivalence of a so-called "eye and ear stage",
particularly the tension arising from this were successfully explored
in "Medea", "Pompinien" as well as "Schattenriss"
in a completely new way.
With "Besuch bei Katt und Fredda" ,"Der blaue Stuhl"
and " Grenzgänger" composed theatre was ready to
start for the first time. Music is not only an important element
of the production, but the entire project is subject to a theatrical
musicality. The text is understood as a score, is examined and applied
for rhythmic structures and in that way it becomes a music composition
together with elements of movement. The audience's seeing and listening
habits are broken through. The action is percieved with the help
of a musical, sensual structure.
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