Iwanuschka
You take: a crazy witch, a pretty girl, a simple miller's boy, a stuttering cockroach, the Father Frost, together with his snowflake Snegurochka, and a pinch of Russian soul - ready is the basic material for the first part of the great fairy tale fun! The hunt begins and bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps are inevitable. Of course, Father Frost and his chubby assistant Snegurochka, the snowflake, switch on and complete the hustle and bustle. In 2005, the witch Baba Jaga saw the light of the theater world with this piece and became a cult. Almost half a million spectators have since visited Baba Yaga on her subsequent adventures. Today, nine years later, the first part has lost nothing of its charm - still the little ones are happy about the crazy witch and the big ones laugh when Father Frost saves his big snowflake from bursting.
After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."
