Die große Entwunderung des Wilbur Whittaker

by Dan Giovannoni, developed with Luke Kerridge
German language premiere
German by Matthias Grön
from 9 years

"The play really appeals to everyone and is so wonderfully realized in Oldenburg by four actors in a fantastic stage design and once again magnificently and perfectly staged by Ebru Tartıcı Borchers (...) That was the most wonderful family play I have seen in my life. And I've seen a lot of theater in my life." (Marcus Behrens, Bremen zwei)

"It's hard to believe that this wonderful play is offered almost exclusively as part of the Enter program for schools. "Die Große Entwunderung des Wilbur Whittaker" is great family fun that was applauded by the young audience." (NWZ)

Wilbur used to wonder about the greatest things: jet packs, keytars and interstellar superhighways. Today, in his early forties, he is only interested in brown ties and painting his garden fence. His precious childhood marvels, on the other hand, lead a shadowy existence in a dusty, almost forgotten box under his bed. Until one night, officials from an ominous "office" appear in his bedroom to much fanfare and take the box away without further ado. But when Princess Fantastic appears, a child who claims to have been watching over Wilbur's wonders for 6,000 years, it is too late: the officials are already on their way to the recycling plant with the box. But without his childhood memories, not only does Wilbur himself seem to be slowly disintegrating, but the order of the entire universe depends on the preservation of the box. And so Wilbur Whittaker and Princess Fantastic embark on an intergalactic adventure of epic proportions to save themselves and the whole world from the Great Unwondering.