Mars Attacks! opens tonight at Rote Fabrik in Zürich. Here are some photos of Berlin’s Das Helmi puppet theatre and Zürich’s Theater Hora from Friday and Saturday’s dress rehearsals. It’s a very good work and you should come to Zürich to see it (or Bern next week).
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 1: apartment block puppets
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 2: alien theatre bondage protest abduction
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 3: death by tickling
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 4: a quartet of onlookers
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 5: the quartet of onlookers again
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 6: alien pants wedgie force field
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 7: alien president & alien seductress dance
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 8: puppet and person
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 9: the president’s (alien) baby
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 10: alien robot city rampage
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 11: Beatrice Egli
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 12: Beatrice Egli sings
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 13: destruction aftermath
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 14: cleaning up
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 15: naked alien nation paint bath
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 16: songs from Middle Earth
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 17: the ladies’ salon
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 18: singing in the salon
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 19: more singing in the salon
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 20: around the dinner table
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 21: alien birth on the dinner table
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 22: Elvis exchanges baby for his last album
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 23: Elvis with baby
Das Helmi & Theater Hora: Mars Attacks — 24: The Helmi-Hora Band!
