M - A CITY HUNTS A MURDERER
A bitter grotesque with 30 crude puppets and rousing live music.
The whole city is talking about the brutish child-murderer. The police is powerlessly opposed to a phantom. As the rest of the underworld suffers from the increasing police presence, the criminals participate in the search for the murderer. They desire to bring him to trial themselves, in order to enforce their idea of justice.
„In a masterful way Säidow knows how to interweave and cut scenes to create such an extreme twist that leaves you breathless. (…) Big cinema, big applause. Go there!"
– Magdeburger Volksstimme
“Forget what you know about puppetry. With “M” Magdeburg has brought an almost unbelievable adaptation of an actually even more unbelievable social state of fear, greed for sensation (…) and other press on the stage ...
– Kulturportal Deutschland
“And the line between good and bad runs right through the human heart.”
(from the Song “Good and bad” written by Roscha A. Säidow)
Team.
Text / Composition: Roscha A. Säidow
Direction: Roscha A. Säidow
Stage + Costume Design: Julia Plickat
Conductor / Composition: Andres Böhmer
Dramaturgy: Kathrin Gellrich
CAST and BAND:
Claudia Luise Bose, Anna Wiesemeier, Freda Winter, Richard Barborka, Florian Kräuter, Lennart Morgenstern, Leonhard Schubert
PREMIERE: April 2nd 2016
Puppentheater Magdeburg
16 Songs. 1 Album.
M is a play with music. The 16 songs lead and interweave songs, they reveal layers of the stories, dive deep down into the humans heart or trigger the masses. And sometimes music starts where language stops.
TITLES: Intro * M. A City hunts a murderer * The ball * Anni * Mobchoir * Duett of Witnisses * M. Reminiszenz * Gangsterslife * The Business… * Lost * Good and bad * Mother * Balloonman * Beggards Observation * Click * Hundredthousand Days
Music production of the Magdeburg puppet theater. Text and Composition: Roscha A. Säidow, Conducting and Composition: Andres Böhmer. Performed by the Ensemble.