"Another successful production by the duo pohyb's and consorts: "The Pearl", wonderfully implemented in a sensitive play of great emotions: dreams, friendship, envy, reconciliation can be experienced directly through the skillful physical acting of Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz. Children's theater as it should be."

Katja Rohloff - Organizer, Leonberg

The Pearl

A shell! Mysterious and promising. Is there really a pearl inside? Biba the beaver is blown away. The joy and fascination that develop from finding the shell and the hope for complete happiness immediately resonate with the audience when Maike Jansen as Biba, with the wonderful shell in her arms, excitedly thinks back and forth on the stage. And then, exhausted from all his thoughts about the hoped-for pearl, Biba falls asleep and dreams.

With a wonderfully gigantic pearl around his neck, the dreaming beaver experiences what such a wonderful pearl can do. The audience, both young and old, at the Würzburg Plastic Theater Hobbit are enchanted and empathize when the two magnificent actors Stefan Ferencz and Maike Jansen poetically perform Helme Heine's book "The Pearl" on stage with perfect, precise physical theater, clownish elements and mainly mimetic "speaking".

They manage to make the nature and feelings of Biba and each of his friends tangible. The two of them play so well that even as a viewer you can completely empathize with the deep, almost phlegmatic calm of the moose (Stefan Ferencz is stunning), the fast-paced jumping and airy nature of the rabbit (Maike Jansen is heavenly light), the capricious pig and the mood of the bear. The two of them also bring their very individual desires to life on stage. Everything is played and conveyed so intensely that you could almost forget that Biba is dreaming, that your heart almost starts pounding and you fear how it will all end??

Because everyone wants the pearl. Everyone tries to get hold of it. Any means are justified. It all started with a lie. Biba found the pearl in the forest... And finally? As a result of all the covetous back and forth? No beaver lodge, no dam and finally no more water. Instead, drought and impending disaster, which then comes: an all-consuming fire.

You can hear it. The flickering. You can see it. Thanks to the huge fire flame flag, curved in enormous arches and shapes, that comes to life, really becomes fire, that almost takes your breath away. An all-round, ingenious trick that lets you almost smell the fire, this all-destroying fire that was triggered by dissatisfaction, the desire for possession and egoism, that destroys everything and burns the basis of life - or would burn it...

Because these brilliant minutes are followed by redemption. It was all just a dream! Biba wakes up, comes "back", staggers a little: And now? He hesitates, looks at the shell and realization spreads through him. But he doesn't stop there.

He takes action. The mussel has to go. And it flies back into the pond with momentum.

Finally free again: time for friends.

Pohyb's and co. and their “pearl”: fabulous in both senses of the word!

Corina Roeder