ES WAR KEINMAL oder das Märchen von der Normalität

Fairy tales are stories in which it is usually perfectly clear what is beautiful and what is hideous. Princesses are beautiful, stepmothers are less beautiful and therefore jealous. Fairies are also beautiful and nice to boot, but witches are ugly and lonely. Princes are ideally rich and beautiful. And princesses have to let them save them and then marry them.
Beauty is a powerful social concept. Many think of beauty as symmetry, harmony, flawlessness or even happiness. Beauty ideals leap out at us from every screen, every photo, every mirror. They influence how we feel, pretend that there is something that is normal and, above all, they are also: simplistic and perhaps even violent. But that was once! The players of HORA and Henrike Iglesias want to question their concepts of beauty and therefore take the fairy tale apart by every trick in the book ES WAR KEINAL ODER DAS MÄRCHEN VON DER NORMALITÄT. Can a prince also be a princess? Can the frog also remain a frog, and the most beautiful one in all the land? Can the witch be part of a feminist collective that saves the world? And can the queen be played by a drone? We’ll find out. But one thing is already clear: normality is a fairy tale.

by Henrike Iglesias

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