Boards that mean the world

The new season has begun! Theatre director Striese and his tingling chaos troupe are once again on the road through the German countryside. Her next guest performance takes her to Neustadt an der Dosse, where Striese accidentally hands on the manuscript of an opera: The sumptuous setting of a Roman tragedy was written by school director Gollwitz, who, however, keeps the work under wraps for fear of his buttoned up wife. Fortunately, the seductive diva Bella della Donna — actually butcher's daughter from Teltow — is able to influence Gollwitz so that nothing stands in the way of the premiere in the club room of the local shooting house...

With Boards That Mean the World, the Komische Oper Berlin is bringing another successful piece of the GDR's “Cheerful Music Theatre” back on stage in semi-concert form. Gerhard Kneifel's turbulent musical version of Schwank The Rape of the Sabine Women features chic ragtime, slow rock and lots of joke. With Striese's hiking troupe, “Mississippi Music” is coming to the Baltic Sea resort, the Bossa Nova to Brandenburg — and above all: finally high culture in the smallest town!