Thalias Kompagnons: Wenn Ferdinand nachts schlafen geht / Wunder. Internationales Figurentheaterfestival

In the organizer's words:

Musical picture story for children and other dream dancers | Ages 5 and up

Little Ferdinand can't fall asleep. His room is so scary in the dark: the chest of drawers turns into a monster, the curtain swims through the wallpaper as a fish, and why can he suddenly fly? Accompanied by his cat, Ferdinand sets off that night in search of the great magician behind the transformations. And makes a startling discovery in the process.

Everyone has probably been afraid of the dark at some point. Thalia's companions get to the bottom of this feeling. With collages created live on stage and enchanting accordion music, they bring the objects in the children's room at night to life and open up a magical cosmos in which the impossible becomes possible.

The puppeteer, author and director Tristan Vogt has been making theater since 1990. Thalias Theater Kompagnons is based in Nuremberg and regularly tours internationally. In over 20 years of theater work, they have developed an artistic signature that is both unmistakable and enormously versatile. They are just as at home in musical theater as they are in contemporary literature; their forms of expression range from classical hand puppetry to object theater and painting performances - free in their handling of theatrical conventions, courageous in their mixture of the simple and the artificial, of popular theater and avant-garde art, always respectful of the material.