Theater SalzstreuNer (DE)

“I’m completely lost!” you think to yourself after a few minutes. So miniature doppelganger figures are used to vividly explain who is related to whom, who has banished whom and which of the two courts has fallen in love with whom in the Arden Forest.

And that is where they all meet: Rosalind, disguised as a man, who does not reveal her true identity to her beloved Orlando. Her cousin Celia, who has fled with her, falls in love with Oliver, who in turn is rescued from a lion by her enemy brother Orlando. And the jester accompanying her, Touchstone, who falls in love with the goatherder Audrey and the shepherdess Phebe, who in turn finally hears the shepherd Silvius’ declarations of love after she is forced to realize that Ganymede, to whom she gave her heart, is not a man at all, but Rosalind in disguise.

The “edgy guys” by Nuremberg artist Hardy Kaiser, made from old telegraph poles, serve as the figures for Theater Salz + Pfeffer. They are the ideal tools for exploring the truths of love and untangling the confusion. And in the end, you can see through it all and, despite all the hostilities, the play resolves itself into more than a happy ending in the idyllic forest – after all, there are four weddings and no funerals.