DIE DREI EISBÄREN

by Maximilian VITUS THEATER IM LENDBRÄUKELLER, Schwaz ROLE: VERONIKA further cast: Sabine BRLOZANVOVIC (Maralen Lechleitner), Günther ETTL (Pauli Haldenegger), Friedl HEISS (Peter Haldenegger), Traudi LAMPRECHT (Haslocherin), Mike MÜHLEGGER (Juliander Haldenegger), Herwig WARASIN (Girgl Anthuber) Director: Markus PLATTNER Assistant director / sound: Stephanie SCHATZ Costumes: Silvia FRITZ Set design: Fritz BACHMANN Lighting design: Ralf WAPPLER Technical: David PLATTNER / Daniel NÖCKL Press / dramaturgy: Susanne SCHARTNER Graphics: Tamara BAUMANN Photos: Kurt SCHARTNER Production: THEATER IM LENDBRÄUKELLER

The brothers Peter, Pauli and Juliander Haldenegger – known in the village only as "the three polar bears" because they show no interest whatsoever in the fairer sex – run their mountain farm in peace and harmony as three confirmed bachelors. Only Veronika the housekeeper is tolerated as the sole woman on the farm.
The peace and cosy idyll is disturbed, however, when one day an unexpected addition turns up at the Haldenegger farm.
The cattle dealer and "matchmaker" Anthuber does his bit to finally bring some life into the solitude of the mountains. And in the form of a sweet "loan" from the village priest, love at last gets its due. But which of the three brothers is struck by Cupid's arrows, and how the story ends, you can experience here at this THEATER IM LENDBRÄUKELLER.

"....... Theatre that creates the illusion of reality on stage is fundamentally different from what happens here. This kind of theatre, popularly known as "Gauditheater", thrives on disillusionment. It is related to parody and tomfoolery. Here "Gauditheater" means clowning with exaggerated gestures, a sense of choreography and a large helping of "feigned" stupidity. Slapstick and theatrical thunder!

The three somewhat backward fellows have nothing to do with the usual "village idiots". They behave like children in men's bodies and carry around, for all to see, the contradiction between what they ought to be and what they have remained. It is this recognisable contradiction that makes us laugh and that is the main interest of this play. We do not laugh at their backwardness, but at the contradictions – at the relationship between what the three really ought to be, namely grown men, and what they are.
We laugh with a sense of release, because in each of us lives something "backward" that doesn't fit our role in society."

(Quote: Dr. Ekkehard SCHÖNWIESE, TheaterVerbandTirol)

It's high time to do a "punk farce" again!
That means:
reinterpreting the old and seemingly stuck-in-a-rutand souping it up!
That only works with the best cast and even more fun!

PURE FOLK THEATRE – REDUCED TO THE ESSENCE

MARKUS PLATTNER