florschütz & döhnert

Rawums(:)

A trip to the wonderland of gravity
For very small children from 2 to 5 years

Falling is easy.
Flying is hard.
Dreaming is fragile like an egg.

An egg wants to fly, but it should not fall down because it would break. While the egg is dreaming of flying, a man and a woman are acting out all kinds of possibilities of falling and flying in a charmingly clownish and funny way. Using pictures and words they both tell of the difference between lightness/weightlessness and weight/gravity. There are certain rules: a feather hovers, a bag slumps down. But does a house, a chair or a human being fly? Every rule has its exception. There is a lot between up and down, between heaven and earth; and poetically everything is possible, even flying.

A little more than half an hour of theatre for children attending their first show.

Rawums (:) received the award IKARUS 2008, the prize for the extraordinary play for young audience in Berlin.

Perspective: Werner Hennrich
Play, images, sound: Michael Döhnert and Melanie Florschütz

Production: florschütz & döhnert
in coproduction with Theater o.N. and SCHAUBUDE Berlin

Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
Thanks to Andrea Kilian
Photographs: Thomas Ernst