What a Weird Day!
Horse Eats Hat
Herbert Grönemeyer
We have two Herberts stirring up three hours of theatrical madness: with Herbert Grönemeyer’s music and Herbert Fritsch’s direction, Eugène Labiche’s farce of mistaken identity becomes a merciless attack on the audience’s funny bone. Here, it’s really about the joke and not any deeper meaning: Herbert Fritsch spreads open a slapstick playbook that lets the singing performers frolic to their hearts’ desire and the audience’s delight.
On the morning of his wedding day, the young gentleman Fadinard finds himself in extreme entanglements after his horse eats a lady’s hat. But if the lady goes home hatless, her jealous husband will discover her secret tryst with a police officer. So before he can get married, Fadinard must first procure a new hat. You got all that? Then hold on tight for a gallop through comedic chaos!
On the morning of his wedding day, the young gentleman Fadinard finds himself in extreme entanglements after his horse eats a lady’s hat. But if the lady goes home hatless, her jealous husband will discover her secret tryst with a police officer. So before he can get married, Fadinard must first procure a new hat. You got all that? Then hold on tight for a gallop through comedic chaos!
Fadinard, a young privateer, decides to marry the daughter of a provincial gardener. On their wedding day, he becomes embroiled in a rather complicated situation: His horse ate a woman’s hat that morning. Not that dramatic? A tragedy!
For if the woman in question returns home without her hat, her jealous husband will come to know of her ing with a policeman. The woman and her lover follow Fadinard into his house and demand compensation for the hat that was eaten. To complicate matters, they demand an identical hat and hole up in his house until they receive their compensation. In the meantime, the wedding guests have arrived and are ready to party. Fadinard’s bride celebrated her bachelorette party the night before and has one hell of a hangover. But on his wedding day Fadinard finds himself running all over Paris in search of a substitute hat. The guests follow Fadinard all across town. They have no idea of his mission. And the further they go, the bigger the party becomes. In the end, Fadinard and his bride may be married, but chaos reigns all around them.
Herbert Grönemeyer
Musical comedy based on Eugène Labiche’s
The Italian Straw Hat, in an adaptation by Sabrina Zwach
Music and song texts by Herbert Grönemeyer
(“Heiss” by Sabrina Zwach and Herbert Grönemeyer)
Arrangements by Thomas Meadowcroft
Musical comedy based on Eugène Labiche’s
The Italian Straw Hat, in an adaptation by Sabrina Zwach
Music and song texts by Herbert Grönemeyer
(“Heiss” by Sabrina Zwach and Herbert Grönemeyer)
Arrangements by Thomas Meadowcroft
Premiere on February 8, 2025
A co-production with Theater Basel
In cooperation with Ruhrtriennale
In cooperation with Ruhrtriennale
Recommended from grade 7
German
3hr, incl. intermission
Cooperation
Presented by radio3.