As of: January 19, 2024, 8:45 a.m
By: Helga Zagermann
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Entertainingly bringing summer into winter (above from left) Lisa Reiff, Helena Simon, Niklas Muskik, Caspar Jordan, Amelie Peschke and (hidden) Lena Stärk.
Under the direction of Petra Gewald they played Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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The contrast couldn't have been greater than at the premiere of the upper school theater at the Carl-Spitzweg-Gymnasium: outside a raging snowstorm, inside in the auditorium a birds-twittering Midsummer Night's Dream.
Germering - 15 students from Q12 under the direction of teacher Petra Gewald took on a Shakespeare classic - and presented it in an entertaining, amusing way and with lots of nice details.
“A Midsummer Night's Dream,” written in 1595 or 1596, is set in ancient Athens and an adjacent enchanted forest.
Sometimes the characters are in reality, sometimes in the dream world.
The students bring this into the present by starting the performance with a rave: They dance through the small birch forest on stage to DJ music;
The English verb “rave” means something like “to rage” and “to fantasize”.
And maybe that's why the piece isn't called "Midsummer Night's Dream" but rather "Midsummer Night's Trip", so it's a short excursion or, in the truest sense of the word, a light, hopping step.
Practical joke
The audience is quickly immersed in the well-known story.
Two lovers (convincingly portrayed by Niklas Muskik, Lena Stärk, Amelie Peschke and Helena Simon) are enchanted so that new constellations emerge.
Puck pulled off the practical joke: Oberon, the elf king's helper, likes to cause confusion.
Lisa Reiff gives the puck in furry trousers and with elf ears in an enchanting way: she's always jumping around somewhere, always coming up with new nonsense.
In contrast to this are four younger elves who populate the beautiful scenery in a friendly and well-behaved manner (stage design: Lena Stärk, Henri Simon and Pia Spormaier).
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But when Puck even enchants Oberon's wife, Elven Queen Titania (brave: Levi Kirner in a dress), the fun is over.
He is banished from the realm of the elves and ends up among the humans;
Order is brought back into the chaos of the lovers.
Wedding
Weddings can be celebrated at the king's court (as staged by Caspar Jordan's Oberon).
To mark the occasion, the craftsmen of Athens perform the play “Pyramus and Thisbe”.
Motifs from ancient history later end up in Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet,” among others.
The audience - those on the stage and those in front of the stage - are enthusiastic about the piece, which is performed in a slapstick manner by the students Ranya Alzubaidi, Damian Schwab, David Frey and Bela Heiden.
The piece is heavily shortened, just a trip.
But perhaps it's the greatest compliment when the viewer thinks at the end: What a shame, it's over.
Puck remains the appropriate final word.
He wishes goodnight and asks for applause if you like the piece.
Ovations follow.
And then, like after a dream, we go back out into the snow.
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