Hänsel und Gretel

  

Opera | Komische Oper, Berlin, Germany | 2013

Co-design

Directing, Stage design and costumes: Reinhard von der Thannen

Costume co-design: Wiebke Schlüter

Choreography: Michael Bernhard

Lighting design: Franck Evin

Who doesn't know Grimm Brothers famous but cruel fairy tail of Hänsel und Gretel, Written as an opera by Engelbert Humperdinck in the early 1890’s, it’s substance still appears modern. Showing physical poverty for us was out of the question: the play is all about emotional bleakness with resulted in a freezing design.

Due to their starvation H&G find themselves on the border of hallucination. The forest therefore turns into cutlery, and the which seduces them with a gigantic pie...

The two children on the threshold of adulthood find themselves in a wold of wonder - and danger.