The Wels Puppet Theater Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary until Wednesday. At the opening on Thursday, director Gerti Tröbinger welcomed numerous visitors to the Stadttheater Greif with noticeable joy. There, the Sofie Krog Teater delved deep into the magic of puppet theater with “The House” full of black humour.
In their comedy thriller, the Danish artist Sofie Krog and David Faraco put an entire house and crematorium on the stage. Because the wealthy homeowner wants to change her will, her nephew’s wife takes her around the corner without further ado. But the assassination plot fails. The brutally murdered woman lives on in her dog as a swallowed “spark of the soul”. A grotesque story that conjures up such moments as the illusionary power of puppet theater can create so subtly.
A special cooperation of the figure theater festival with the Wels 1 vocational school was then opened in the city museum in the Minoriten: For the exhibition “I’m Ilse, don’t forget me” the students have reconstructed the real fate of a Jewish woman from Wels, who was murdered in 1942 at the age of only 21, in fictional texts that are therefore so touchingly authentic, enriched with filigree, expressive metalwork. (cash)
30-year celebration today, Saturday: “Every ticket wins” – The big theater lottery” invites you to the Minoriten in Wels at 7.30 p.m Info, maps: 0664 495 06 85, www.figurentheater-wels.at
Source: Nachrichten
