Germany – Teatro Due Mondi at the neanderland BIENNALE
The neanderland BIENNALE is a widespread theatre festival organized every two years by the district (Kreis) of Mettmann in co-operation with the ten cities that are part of it, with the aim of bringing theatre to unusual places and making it an accessible experience for as many citizens of all ages as possible.
The programme of this 11th edition (August 19-September 9) ranges from classical theatre to the most innovative productions, from street theatre to children's theatre, and in addition to theatrical performances there are cabaret, acrobatics, music and a poetry slam.
Teatro Due Mondi is guest of the festival with Mauerrisse (Wall Cracks), a work conceived and structured for open air spaces, focused on the theme of the many walls, borders, frontiers of the world we live in, and their possible overcoming.
In a large rectangular space, occupied on all four sides by the public, the actors tell of walls and barriers made of stone and barbed wire, that can become impassable, but also of walls of fear and mistrust, of boundaries created by the difficulty of relating between people or with oneself. And the invitation is to seek, to create, through knowledge, the 'cracks', the breaches to tear down the walls raised by ignorance.
Maurrisse is on stage in Hilden on August 25 (6 pm, Ellen-Wiederhold-Platz).
This is the last stage of the company’s long summer tour, started in late June in France and carried on in Poland, Norway and above all Germany, where they have performed in nine cities.