Bluebeard - A Punch and Judy Show by Margrit Wischnewski, Franz Graf Pocci and Ludwig Tieck
In Bluebeard's blue castle on the blue sea, there are many hundreds of rooms that invite you to browse, marvel and admire. But a woman should never enter the seventh room, never!
Margrit Wischnewski plays with texts, puppets and even a bit of fear... But there's no shortage of fun, because this is a Punch and Judy comedy.
The (blue) bearded knight should not be taken very seriously, although he has been kept alive in legends, songs and stories of all kinds for centuries. With Charles Perrault, he became a full member of the literary heroic society in 1697. In 1797, Ludwig Tieck wrote "Die 7 Weiber des Blaubart" (Bluebeard's Seven Wives) in Germany quite shortly afterwards and gave the women in particular a chance to have their say. Franz Graf Pocci's 45 Punch and Judy comedies naturally also feature the bearded knight, and here we are in the middle of the 19th century.
"I enjoyed reading the literature and writing a Punch and Judy comedy with Fieck and Pocci. And here, too, a woman has the floor, namely Gretel, Kasper's long-term girlfriend (and now finally a woman?).
If the audience has as much fun at the performances as I had thinking, writing and rehearsing, I'd be delighted," says Margrit Wischnewski.
