BARON MÜNCHHAUSEN BETWEEN THE STARS - A Play on the Art of Storytelling

Name: BARON MÜNCHHAUSEN BETWEEN THE STARS - A Play on the Art of Storytelling
Start: 2024-05-31T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Letní Scéna Na Vyšehradě

Schedule

Fri May 31 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Letní Scéna Na Vyšehradě | Prague, PR

Just imagine… A travelling troupe of actors stops off in Prague in the middle of the 18th century to present a play about the most famous of all Fabulists: Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen, or Baron Prášil, as Czechs call him.
In historical costumes, accompanied by chamber musicians and opera singers from the National Theater, with sounds created on stage, all acted out in front of classically painted backdrops, the MAD AND MERRY MEN - who only last year produced the sold out runs of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" and Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol" - present the adventures of the Baron on his journey from a small village somewhere in Germany, across the Orient and up to the Moon...
Along the way, he meets such amazing figures as the legendary alchemist Hermes Trismegistos or the knight of miserable appearance, Don Quixote; travels around the world in the chariot of the fairy king Map and discovers the Library of Alexandria... He will be accompanied by a host of eccentric characters, mythical creatures and dreamers. And again and again the Baron sees what holds the world together at its core, what has united all people throughout the ages all over the world: The Art of Storytelling.
It the will be the world wide first Stage Adaptation of the recently republished second original volume of the original Münchhausen stories by R.E. Raspe, in a more than suitable setting: The open-air theatre on Prague's Vyšehrad.
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This play, presented in English, is set to highlight the importance of the Character of Münchhausen for both Czech and German Culture, Münchhausen as central Literature in the Age of Enlightenment, and of Legends and Lore as the carrier of Wisdom and History all around the World.
BARON MÜNCHHAUSEN BETWEEN THE STARS will be framed by a weeks-long accompanying programme: A series of Storytelling Evenings with tales from the Age of Enlightenment, featuring different renowned Storytellers from Prague (in Czech, English and German).