“No, I’m not nice, I’m not going to bed yet” – Valerie probably speaks to every little bundle of energy from the soul, whose passion for gaming is far from exhausted. Likewise, many parents can sing a song about how long and arduous the road to the realm of dreams can be.
How entertaining and light-footed he can be told, on the other hand, can be experienced in the first of four premieres of the season at the Theater des Kinds: Michaela Obertscheider wrote Mira Lobe’s children’s book about little Valerie, who doesn’t and doesn’t want to go to bed, with a lot of love and Creativity adapted for the stage – as an enchanting theater of transformation of objects by the power of the imagination: cushions and lamp stands have always been a camel and a string a dancing snake to the whistle of a tennis racket. A duvet ship sets sail for wild adventures. And the young audience doesn’t just cheer when it’s chased through the imaginary train.
With her creative, child-friendly direction, Michaela Obertscheider rolls out the red carpet for the actors in order to win the hearts of her audience. The colorful stage design by Michaela Mandel, designed with great attention to detail, does them good service. As the bright Valerie, Katharina Schraml is a little stubborn with irresistibly contagious enthusiasm – an ideal counterpart for everyone who never tires. Parents, on the other hand, find themselves in David Baldessari as an exhausted but patiently loving father who dives into the next adventure with his daughter. There is also singing and rapping. The latter as simple as it is effective on the box and ball calculator as percussion instruments. The Linz pianist David Wagner has created catchy, poetic incidental music.
Anything is possible in this realm of fantasy, except for one thing: falling asleep.
Source: Nachrichten
