DOMINO – DomStufen-Festspiele for Children 2024
After seven years of work, Hans receives a large lump of gold as his reward. With it he sets off on the long journey home. The time of apprenticeship is over, now he has to prove himself in life. Along the way, he repeatedly encounters his old master – just poorly disguised. Driven by greed, he keeps persuading Hans to trade again and yet again: first it’s the gold for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, and finally the goose for a whetstone. Each exchange makes the master become more greedy and relieves Hans a little more from old burdens and constraints. When he finally even loses the whetstone and thereby his master’s attention as well, he apparently has lost everything, hasn't he?
In a sung version with small orchestra (music: David Robert Coleman), the famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm poses the timeless question: What does it take to be happy?
