Synopsis

At a time when everything is still wild and nameless, man and woman meet - hungry, freezing, and homeless. They decide to brave the wilderness together and move into a cave. They light a fire, and the smell of the sizzling food attracts the wild dog. For a bone, he submits to the people and henceforth guards their home. The smell of hay, which serves as a cushion, and of clover, from which medicine is prepared, tame horse and cow, which now also serve the humans: as a riding horse and milk cow. Disparagingly, all this is observed by the cat: " I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me." But it is hard to stay wild when the cave beckons with warmth and with the scent of cow's milk! The cat coaxes the initially dismissive woman and extracts a promise from her: if she says something good about the cat three times, then the cat will be allowed into the cave, by the fire, and will be given milk to drink every day ...

The woman does not expect to have to keep her promise. But when the crying of the newborn baby does not want to end, the purring of the cat helps. The cat earns a second praise by teaching husband and wife, worn down by the routines of family life, how to dance. But then dog, horse, and cow rebel against their yoke - too monotonous is the safe but quite bland tame life without wildness. The humans panic: without horse no hunting, without dog no security, without cow no milk ... The cat pricks up her ears: No milk? She convinces the other animals to occasionally give free rein to being wild and yet enjoy the benefits of civilized existence in the humans' home. Man and woman let the animals have their way and from now on also live according to the cat's example - tame, but sometimes wild.

Anne-May Krüger

Premiere: July 19, 2024
Bayrische Theaterakademie August Everding

Cast

Nathan Harris musical direction
Friederike Karig stage direction
Rebekka Kessler stage design
Christina Vogel costume design
Rebecca Raitz, Louisa Sausner dramaturgy
Daniel Holzberg, Daniel Grenda sound / light

Anhelina Vlasenko actress, Katze
Catalina Geyer mezzo-soprano, Frau
Geonho Lee baritone, Mann
Annabelle Kern soprano, Kind / Hund / Kuh / Pferd

Jenny Scherling viola
Mareike Kirchner cello
Stephan Lanius, Sebastian Griegel double bass

Premiere: May 21st, 2021
Landestheater Linz

Cast

Romely Pfund, Kieran Staub musical direction
Sabine Sterken stage direction
Aleksander Kaplun stage design and costumes
Anna Maria Jurisch dramaturgy

Sophie Kirsch actress, Katze
Jana Markovic mezzo-soprano, Frau
Peter Fabig baritone, Mann
Tina Josephine Jaeger soprano, Kind / Hund / Kuh / Pferd

Oriol Tort Cano viola (also Hund)
Juan Manuel Bermúdez Obando violoncello (also Kuh)
Caroline Adriana Renn double bass (also Pferd)