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By: Magnus Reitinger
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The stage design is of course also self-made for the “Wechselspui” at the Marnbacher Theater, which was sold out three times on the premiere weekend.
Playing (from left) Georg Niedermaier (back), Sepp Niedermaier, Conny Weinzierl, Dominikus Sterff, Susanne Albrecht and Sepp Scharnagl.
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Strong sayings and an immoral deal: the new production at the Marnbacher Theater is quite “explicit”.
Marnbach - There won't be a dry eye in the comedy that the Marnbach theater artists are bringing to the stage of the Old Schoolhouse this season.
Let's put it this way: If the students in these rooms had spoken even half as pithily and raunchy at the time, there would have been a hail of entries in the class register.
And in more prudish countries, recordings of this comedy would probably have to be given the famous label that warns against “explicit lyrics”.
An immoral deal, made with a lot of liquor
But Marnbach's popular amateur theater group is certainly not prudish, and so this year they are showing a production that is not afraid of innuendo or strong expressions: "Wechselspui", an eloquent comedy that the well-known author and actor Josef Daser wrote in 2018 and with his Neuwirtbühne premiered in Großweil – and it comes across as a Bavarian version of the Hollywood classic “An Immoral Offer”.
The immoral deal is arranged by a shady horse dealer over a lot of liquor between a lecherous landowner and a chronically cash-strapped horse lover.
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And the deal goes like this: Wiggerl, the horse lover who is still very young and in need of money, “loans” his attractive wife Annamirl to the landowner Heiterwanger for eight days and nights.
In return, he gives him the successful galloper stallion “Cool Casanova” forever, who wins one race after another and collects corresponding prize money.
Oh yes, and of course the malicious horse trader also wants to take advantage of the whole thing...
There is no shortage of rude sayings
You can already guess: This plot, presented in the deepest Bavarian language and set in the late 1960s, opens up space for a lot of fun and at least as many clichés - which Sepp Niedermaier as the landowner, Sepp Scharnagl as a horse trader and Dominikus Sterff as a young husband play out beautifully and to the fullest Enjoy trains.
Her characters are not lacking in rude sayings.
“Getting married is like getting married in dirt with a clean robe,” it says, for example.
Or one of the protagonists has to hear that “his shady character is etched into his miserable face”.
And then there are some sayings that you don't want to quote in the newspaper.
The “Wechselspui” takes lively turns
Of course, there is also plenty of turbulence and complications.
And for lively twists: The “Wechselspui” is also called that because constellations and emotions in this game are constantly changing.
Anyone who thinks that the women here are just “pussies” – the kind that landowner Heiterwanger likes to flirt with – or even pitiable objects will soon find themselves mistaken.
Susanne Albrecht has furious, even dominant performances as Annamirl.
Even the landowner's cuckolded wife (Conny Weinzierl) is not naive for long, but ultimately a very strong woman.
Of course, the priest (Georg Niedermaier), without whom peasant theater plays so reluctantly, has to remain deep in the cliché: He is touchingly trying to lead his flock out of Sodom and Gomorrah - and is not entirely free from his own interests and temptations.
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The three-hour theater evening directed by Sepp Niedermaier takes its course in a classic manner and is not short on surprises.
And anyone who experiences the Marnbach Theater for the very first time will probably say: they really didn't expect so much life in an old school building.
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More performances
are on Easter Monday, April 1st, at 7 p.m.;
on Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m.;
on Sunday, April 7, at 7 p.m.;
on Friday, April 12, at 8 p.m.;
on Sunday, April 21, at 7 p.m.;
and on Friday, April 26th, at 8 p.m. - always in the Old Schoolhouse Marnbach.
Tickets by calling 0881/6531 (daily from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.).