Having seen this poster early on in our time in the city, I thought, Shakespeare, blazers, and tutus, I'm curious. After a little internet research we learned the show would be in both English and German, and tix were relatively inexpensive, so let's give it a shot.
It was certainly a work of performance art that I found at best curious, and at worst, laughably peculiar. There were 4 main players, a puppet, and a muscian, 3 tutus and 1 fog machine. At times sonnets were recited in English, at times in German translation. I think one of the players was supposed to be playing Shakespeare himself, answering for why it was so difficult to translate his poetry into German. At one point, for no reason I could discern, they killed the puppet by smothering it with a pillow, then proceeded to punch and kick one another in the groin.
The artistic redemption to all this ridiculousness came in the last 10 min or so with dramatic juxtaposition of sonnets 57 ("Being your slave, what should I do but tend....") and sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summers day?")
It was certainly something we never would have seen sitting at home on our couch in the states.
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