Schimmelpfennig is one of the most important modern theatre writers we have here in Germany. I think his adaption of Wonderland is rather unknown compared to his other award-winning plays, but it does happen from time to time that big theatres grab the material. The last time being in 2013 at Theater Konstanz. Schimmelpfennig directed his own production of the text to rather mediocre reviews in 2008 at the prestigious Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2008. From the little information there is it must have been my cup of tea. I love brave modern absurd theatre that makes no apologies. I'm currently trying to make contact to the Burgtheater-Archiv that is supposed to have a recording of the show. I found some pictures online today that I haven't seen before so I wanted to share.
Credit goes to 360-Berlin. More pics after the jump break.
Credit goes to 360-Berlin. More pics after the jump break.
I might do another post soon about the script of Schimmelpfennig. It's definitely on my to-do-list of plays I wanna do later in my career. What makes the text so interesting is that it's almost a faithful adaption (and a very good one indeed) of the two books with all the elements we know. Yet there is a sort of darkness and twistedness unlike the original Carroll text between the lines which makes it so interesting. Schimmelpfennig wrote a couple of songs that can't keep up with the cleverness of some of the other inventions, with less graceful moments like "I'm the queen of the night because I'm so bad" (sung by the Queen of Hearts). I can picture most of it working out with an interesting sound concept and live band.
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