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THEATER PRODUCTIONS
Buki in the Magic Forest (1991+ 1993) Dance theater for children from 4 to 100 years, based on an African fairy tale Davis Oladeji Nejo: book, direction, choreography produced by Cross Cultural Communication The theater play tells the story of a young girl being the only one able to save the king from a mysterious illness by finding the water of life in the Magic Forest after facing dangerous adventures with witches, ghosts and big animals. From this story children shall learn to be courageous, to understand their dreams and to help others. Cast: Davis Oladeji Nejo (Medicine Man) Bayo Ojo (King) Tamara Wörner (Buki) Byo Olugbenga (Vezir) Michael Sulzenbacher (Palast Councellor) Babtunde Idowu (Palast Councellor) Charles Johnson (Palast Councellor) and others ... Performed at: Museum of Technology, Vienna Interkult Theater, Vienna Othmarsaal, Vienna Kulturzentrum Oberschuetzen, Burgenland Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten Theater Akzent, Vienna At several schools in Vienna Sebe the Wonderful Child (1995+1996) Dance theater for children and adults based on an African fairy tale Davis Oladeji Nejo: book, direction, choreography produced by Cross Cultural Communication The theater play tells the story of a childless man, who, when he was old, married another woman to get a baby for him. His first wife was very jealous and allied with the witches. They cursed the young woman and locked the unborn baby inside her for twelve years. After this time the great Magician did not want to be part of this wicked game any more and broke the curse – Sebe, already 12 years old, was born. The child was very aggressive and after killing all chicken in the village, the villagers drove him away. Alone in the forest he met a very big magic hen, who cured him from his aggressions. After this surprising change Sebe was welcomed back in his village and they celebrated a big feast for him. This story is taken from the Yoruba mythology to teach children what it means to have two wives, the importance of the community, to calm down personal aggresions angainst weaker or handicapped persons and the sense of forgiving. Cast: Davis Oladeji Nejo (Medicine Man) Tony Coker (Husband) Angela Osuman (First Wife) Tsitsi Mkwekwe (Young Wife) Eva Jankovsky (Sebe) Bayo Olugbenga (Sebe) Betsy Bandian (Villager) Yomi Animashaun (Villager) and others ... Performed at: Theater Akzent, Vienna Stadtheater Klagenfurt, Carinthia Kinderkultutage Leogang, Salzburg Stadttheater Hallein, Salzburg UCA Open Air Festival Linz, Upper Austria The Reanimation of Mr. Ötzi (1996) Theater for children on the occasion of the "1000-years Austria" festivities Davis Oladeji Nejo: book, direction produced by Cross Cultural Communication The theater play tells the story of a school class who discovers the body of a man during an excursion in the hills of Oberlaa in the Wienerwald. It turns out that they have found a 1000 year old mummy. The famous Prof.Dr.Dr.Dr. Schrebergärtner examines the mummy – the whole world is interested in the results, so that the President of Austria has to release a blackout on the news. But during the night, when the laboratory was closed, "Mr. Ötzi" suddenly wakes up .... What will happen to this 1000 year old "foreigner" in a world of today? The children were asked to draw or write down their own fantasy how the story shall end. This is a multimedia interactive theater, that continues even long after the last curtain has dropped. Cast: Bayo Olugbenga (Ötzi) Police (Betsy Bandian) Robert Taurer (Prof.Dr.Dr.Dr. Schrebergärtner) Lila Gürmen (Assistant of the Professor) Andrea Oberhuber (Cleaning Woman) and the audience school children... Performed at: Multikids Festival, Interkult Theater, Vienna |
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