TELL by Joachim B. Schmidt

Why just another William Tell – and why does he have to go on stage? Because Schmidt's "Tell" not only looks into the characters, but almost out of them! Wilhelm, Walter, Gertrud, Gessler, Harras: they all recount from their perspectives the episode of their lives that has occupied Switzerland for 800 years now. It's so immediate and strong that you root for and sympathize with every character. Even Gessler – when the sensitive Habsburg finds it difficult to stand it in the foehn-plagued Uri region with his coarse freedom fighters, then you feel for him. How to implement the whole thing? With strong, live-drawn images, with 3-D mummy-like shadow play, with voices from Uri and Habsburg, with large masks from Central Switzerland, with non-dancing dancers, with music that transcends epochs!