© Xenia Zezzi

© Xenia Zezzi

© Xenia Zezzi

© Xenia Zezzi

© Xenia Zezzi

The Tales of Michael Köhlmeier (12+)

«Enigmatic, absurd, sometimes dazzlingly beautiful, mostly evil, disturbing stories. Michael Köhlmeier’s fairy tales are not retellings of well-known material, but «fairy tales of our time.»

The world of wonderful occurrences, where time and logic dissolve and yet everything is strangely true – that is the world of fairy tales. They are about rebelling forces of nature, about someone who gradually sells all his senses, about villagers praying to the rain and the wild hunt led by Death himself. Cunning scoundrels, a cursed mouth, hanged men talking, unborn children singing, angels counting tears and eternally gossiping party comrades – they all live in Michael Köhlmeier’s 151 fairy tales.

The Vorstadttheater Basel stages five of them on a walk through the city. Walking through the city, wearing headphones, the audience follows the live performance and narration by Matthias Grupp and the music by Florian Grupp.

Vorstadttheater Basel stages sophisticated, professional and contemporary theater for children and adults. The main focus of the program is on the one or two productions a year by the company’s own ensemble, which are first performed en suite in Basel and then tour the German-speaking theater world.