Der kleine Prinz

Anarchic clown theater by and with theater legend Roberto Ciulli and Maria Neumann

At the age of 44, the professional pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry crashed in 1944 near the Île de Riou near Marseille and remained lost. Only a year after he had written his 27 marvelous fragments about the encounter of an unfortunate aviator with a boy who fell from his star. Based on this favorite gift book of all post-war German generations, Roberto Ciulli and Ma- ria Neumann describe a man’s encounter with his own childhood in the face of death, saving the audience for at least one evening from the greatest suffering that can befall them after Maugham. In a fantastic clown theater, Roberto Ciulli and Maria Neumann succeed in staging a production for the Mülheim Theater an der Ruhr about the most difficult subjects of all – death and old age. For seventy minutes, Maria Neumann and Roberto Ciulli play against their own and general human loneliness with the best they have – imagination – in front of an astonished audience. Roberto Ciulli, now 89 years old and one of the style-defining European directors of the eighties and nineties, returns to Weimar with two small, particularly personal projects. »The Little Prince« celebrated its premiere almost 24 years ago to the day.