The projects "Rost und Staub" and "Pech und Schwefel" are about the emancipation of fairytale characters from the same old clichés and platitudes in the fairytale world.
Both projects were implemented with TouchDesigner and Kinect or PoseNet.
"Rost und Staub" was developed as a classroom play in 2023 and performed in schools and theaters across Hamburg. Two fairies have to clean up the fairy tale archive and use a magical machine to do so. We created the "Märchenspieglinator 2000" which allows the children themselves to step onto a magic carpet to bring various characters to life and reinterpret them through their movements.
"Pech und Schwefel" was realized in 2022 as a play development at the Moks (Theater Bremen). We created an installation that allows children's drawings to be placed in a magical oven and brought to life by the actors using movement tracking.
Directed by: Cora Sachs
Play (Rost und Staub): Christina Arends, Pablo Konrad
Play (Pech und Schwefel): Fabian Eyer, Judith Goldberg, Frederik Gora, Anne Sauvageot
Video animation and projection: Mara Wild
Stage design: Kathrine Altaparmakov
Installation concept, design and programming: Studio Monstrum, Nikolai Reinke
Dramaturgy: Janne Weirup
Music by Nis-Momme Köpp
Lighting (Pech und Schwefel): Jörg Hartenstein
Theater pedagogy (Pech und Schwefel): Christina Schahabi
Assistant director (Pech und Schwefel): Emily Masch
Assistant set designer (Pech und Schwefel): Amélie Thomae
with texts by Sergej Gößner
Pictures (Rost und Staub): G2Baraniak
Pictures (Pech und Schwefel): Manja Herrmann