Mummenschanz: 50 Years

For 50 years Mummenschanz has been thrilling the theatre world and audiences around the globe. With their anniversary program "50 Years", the award-winning Swiss formation takes the audience on a journey full of fantasy and poetry and shows the most popular sketches from the great repertoire of the last five decades.

Since its founding in Paris in 1972, Mummenschanz has stood for contemporary mask theatre worldwide, across cultures and linguistically independent. Without spoken word, purely visual as well as without music and stage design, only with masks and bodies in front of a black background, the three founders Floriana Frassetto, Andres Bossard and Bernie Schürch conquered the world. Together they have created a new dimension of stage art with Mummenschanz. Floriana Frassetto is still the artistic driving force to this day, standing on stage every evening with young performers.

For the anniversary Floriana Frassetto has put together a programme featuring the most popular and successful numbers such as the clay masks or the toilet paper faces. Of course, the fragile, air-filled Giants, the Tube Man and other whimsical objects and shapes also appear in "50 Years", brought to life by the five performers. But the anniversary show also features sketches with surprising new shapes and the headstrong characters so typical of Mummenschanz.

An anniversary program without words or music, a magical and poetic journey that needs no subtitles. "50 Years" takes you into the boundless yet familiar world of Mummenschanz's imagination, a playful and interactive event with a program for all generations that you won't want to miss.

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