EIN POLITISCHER FANTASY-TRIP AB 9 JAHREN
A family play by Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
DIRECTED BY: Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
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WORLD PREMIERE: 08.11.2025
Every winter, the theatre invites all generations to enjoy a family play. Adults in costume perform fairy tales on stage. But this year, children are taking the helm – with their own stories on the Peacock Stage!
Adults are always telling fairy tales anyway: that you can get rich through hard work. Or that everyone in Switzerland has the same opportunities for a secure and happy life. But how can it be that people have to flee because of war, that glaciers continue to melt and that many Zurich residents can no longer afford to live in the city? It's high time for children to take over and tell their own stories.
In Stefan Kaegi's (Rimini Protokoll) political fantasy trip, Zurich kids between the ages of 8 and 14 take to the big stage. The eight become a music band and discover a mysterious theatre machine – the simulator, with which they can recreate the world. Thus begins an adventure journey through reality: a chase with the police, into the jungles of Gambia, to the homeless, and all the way to the Federal Council in Bern.
Will they succeed in finding the magic formula?
Supported by Gesellschaft der Freunde des Schauspielhauses (gfs) and the Annette Ringier-Stiftung
Malin Keller
