From the Capital of Culture year to a major theater festival: For 18 days, Chemnitz is now the venue for the “Theater der Welt” festival. At the opening on Thursday, the youngest attendees took center stage. At the Hartmannfabrik, paper is crumpled, torn, and glued back together to form animals, costumes, and imaginative plants. “Paper Planet” is the name of the interactive project by Australia’s Polyglot Theatre, which will create a forest of paper and cardboard over the course of several days. It’s meant to grow day by day.
More than 30 international theater productions will be presented in the city through July 5: from the pop opera “Nkoli: A Fierce & Fabulous Life” about anti-apartheid activist Simon Nkoli to the Czech production “Amadoka,” which adapts a trilogy of novels spanning a century of Ukrainian history. Puppet theater, performances, and a production in which audience members immerse themselves in an artificial world using VR headsets are also on the program.
