There is no animal on earth that Frau Rupp and Herr Dröse don’t know about! Or is there? These two odd kindred spirits are passionately committed to the animal world. Why do bees dance, hummingbirds fly backwards and sheep only like friendly faces? Why do herrings fart, certain fish change their sex and snails don’t give a fig for different sexes? Why do male seahorses get pregnant rather than their female mate and why are orang-utans the tenors among apes? Frau Rupp and Herr Dröse know. And if they don’t, they will find out, no matter what!
On their expeditions into the fascinating animal kingdom, these two explorers mainly follow the tracks of rare, endangered and unknown creatures. And they are always driven by the question of what the two-legged and furless Homo sapiens can learn from the lives of their multifarious siblings.
“With great wit, love and poetry, this inseparable duo places the animal kingdom centre stage, while the human species is left standing at the back for once.”
Bettina Hägeli, bz Basel
For more than 40 years, Vorstadttheater Basel has been presenting professional and innovative theatre plays for all ages and generations. The theatre’s own productions with their powerful imagery, their specific aesthetics, their tragi-comic absurdity and their transgenerational approach have been at the heart of programming. Co-directors Matthias Grupp and Gina Durler shape the Vorstadttheater with their distinctive artistic signature and give the theatre a face.
accessible to
public| 6+
Venue
Theater im Ballsaal
Duration
75 Minuten
Theatre
Vorstadttheater Basel
www.vorstadttheater.ch
Production
Vorstadttheater Basel, Switzerland
Featuring: Gina Durler, Michael Schwager
Directed by: Matthias Grupp
Music: Florian Grupp
Scenery: Fabian Nichele
Costumes: Benjamin Burgunder
Dramaturgy: Ueli Blum
Theatre education: Antal Czapkó
Technicians: Christian Foskett, Kim Kästli, Lukas Hohl
Production management: Ingrid Adler, Ronja Rinderknecht
Assistant director: Charlotte Lüscher
Performing rights: The theatre company
Sponsored by Sulger-Stiftung, Jürg George Bürki-Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS and Ernst-Göhner-Stiftung.
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