The Munich Schauburg invites young and old to rediscover the sounds of everyday life with the new music theater piece "Leise Laute" in the hustle and bustle of the city.
Because if you listen carefully, you can even hear the ants singing.
Good art is always mind-altering.
Unhinges previous perceptions and changes your view of the world.
Which absolutely applies to "Leise Laute", the new piece in Munich's Schauburg.
Anyone who then stands in front of the Children's and Youth Theater on Franz-Joseph-Strasse at Elisabethplatz will never again perceive the hum of engines and the rattling of trams, the bicycle bells and the car horns as just annoying noise permanently changing symphony of everyday life.
In which animals and people also participate.
Director Anselm Dalferth and composer Nicholas Morrish from the Kling Klang Klong collective actually succeed in sharpening the audience's senses with the imaginative music theater piece "Leise Laute".
Three actors (Helene Schmitt, Michael Schröder, David Benito Garcia) and four musicians (Ines Ljubej, Mathias Götz, Silvia Berchtold, Vera Drazic) take turns as researchers or animals in search of unknown sounds.
With microphone rods and different instruments from accordion to extremely exotic-looking flutes to a mobile xylophone, people try to discover mysterious soundscapes and to communicate with animals.
This is nothing new for cats and dogs.
You also know the horn of an elephant, the hissing of a snake or the croaking of frogs.
But who has ever heard the happy singing of ants or the sad lamentation of a beaver?
The clever stage design offers many opportunities to get to the bottom of the sound
Rows of spectators frame the stage space, which is filled with all sorts of strange equipment, from three sides.
In addition to extensive tube landscapes in blue and red, from which tufts of grass sprout, there are mountains of brown fur or white plastic fringed curtains that shine anew depending on the lighting.
Sometimes beguiling and enticing in shades of red and pink, sometimes rather cool and almost a little scary in blue or green.
In the course of the hour-long performance, it becomes clear how cleverly the stage design is arranged.
What you can use these grasses, skins and shells with pebbles.
Helene Schmitt, Michael Schröder and David Benito Garcia play in almost every corner of the theater space, do gymnastics through the audience rows or over stairs and high chairs.
Always searching for the origin of music, for the most beautiful song in a thicket of voices and noises.
Dalferth also offers opportunities for versatile musicians to shine.
All styles are played and thus introduced to the youngest viewers in a friendly and casual way.
In this unusual theater project, children from elementary school upwards (smaller ones may be scared because it gets dark occasionally) not only learn in which ways animals can entertain themselves.
But also how important it is not to constantly disturb them.