Marie-Antoinette oder Kuchen für alle!

In the organizer's words:

Life is hard for Marie-Antoinette and her husband King Louis XVI: they have been locked up in the magnificent Palace of Versailles for almost 20 years, waiting to be beheaded. Outside their window, the people harass them incessantly with loud revolutionary slogans, their servants have dwindled to just one person and they haven't had a proper slice of cake for a long time. And although prominent figures from the French Revolution are constantly visiting unannounced, the execution is simply not progressing. So Louis XVI boldly worked on his own guillotine in secret. And what can we say - it works. After all, the royals have to kill time somehow in this entrenched situation; but they also have to escape the thought that they will no longer find a place in this new world that is loudly forming outside the window.

Peter Jordan's fast-paced comedy Marie-Antoinette oder Kuchen für alle! sheds light on the background to the French Revolution with black humor and an alternative history, shooting equally bitter arrows of time into our present day. In a turbulent mixture of Monty Python and Tarantino humor, slapstick and historical drama, Marc L. Vogler makes his debut as the new composer in residence at the Junge Oper Dortmund.

Each performance will be followed by a discussion with those involved in the production. On 09.11.2024 at 14:30 you will also learn more about his piece and his careerfrom composer Marc L. Vogler in a composer portrait.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the NRW KULTURsekretariat.

Marie-Antoinette or cake for everyone!