On Saturday, December 7, 2024, at 8 pm, the play 'Alte Sorten - Zwei Frauen und die alten Sorten im Birnengarten' can be seen at the Idar-Oberstein Municipal Theater. The Chawwerusch Theater is presenting the play based on the bestseller by Ewald Arenz as part of the municipal theater program. Arenz's novel is tailor-made for the stage: exciting, almost thriller-like elements, quiet and light moments, highly dramatic events and hopeful moments alternate. The theater program is supported by Kreissparkasse Birkenfeld as the main sponsor.
By chance, Sally (Ann-Kathrin Kuppel), a minor who has run away, and Liss (Felix S. Felix), a woman in her mid-fifties who runs a farm on her own, meet. Initially for one day and then a few more, the two live and work together on the farm. While baking bread and harvesting potatoes, the initially rather taciturn women grow closer and a dark secret is slowly uncovered.
Sally certainly wouldn't have thought it possible that she would be reading potatoes, making wood and picking old varieties of fruit. That she would eat dinner with clods of dirt on her shoes and soil under her fingernails and even find peace while working on the farm, relatively speaking. She, the non-conformist border crosser who knows how to fiercely defend herself against every paternalism and social rule, finds in Liss a person she can listen to, at least some of the time.
When the two of them enter the pear orchard behind the house on a September day, Sally thinks she is in paradise: Here, the trees have been growing as they please for a long time, no one is forcing them to grow straight, she exclaims enthusiastically to Liss: "The fact that you just let everything grow has made this a magic garden." For Liss, however, the garden has a completely different meaning. As she stands among the branches with the ripe fruit, she begins to tell Sally what it's all about. More and more buried memories come to light. Soon the quiet days are over and events come thick and fast.
- Tickets are available in advance at www.ticket-regional.de and at the usual advance booking offices. All information about the theater program can be found at www.idar-oberstein.de/kultur.