Martin Baltscheit

Die Belagerung
Für Kinder ab 14 Jahren
Für Kinder ab 10 Jahren
2 D, 5 H, Verwandlungsdek
UA: 25.10.2009 · Kompanie Kopfstand, Zürich · Directed by: Annina Roth
The winter in the Siberian village is so harsh that all the supplies are used up and there are no animals left to hunt. Only the wolves sneak around, desperately searching for food just like the humans.
When Milan, in his distress, shoots a wolf for meat, everyone is filled with dread, for folk tales say the one who eats wolf meat gets changelings for children. A few days later the village is surrounded by wolves, who in their hunger maul everything that moves. And then the wolves start to learn how to get to the people who have barricaded themselves in their houses.
Martin Baltscheit tells the story of a family living in the village, fighting for their lives and survival. Successfully, because after days of besiegement, the surviving villagers are rescued by the army.
The siege is based on a true story. In December 1927, wolves besieged the Siberian village of Pilowo. Only an army protection force could prevent the wolves from obliterating the whole village.
Based on this, Martin Baltscheit has written a captivating and atmospherically dense youth theatre play about bravery and desperation, instincts and feelings, and not least about love. The simplicity of the language mirrors the endless snowy vastness of Siberia, the entanglement of mythos and truth eventually causes the transformation from one into the other.
JT