Clivia
Staatstheater Mainz, 2003
"The power of love in Boliguay: at the Mainz State Theater Nico Dostal's dusty operetta 'plant' is well fertilized, in bloom, and consequently glorious.
"Clivia is blooming at Gutenbergplatz right now, because a female directing quartet approached the dust catcher lovingly, with more than just color and pizzazz. Anouk Nicklisch (director), Andrea K. Schlehwein (movement), Ilka Weiss (set designer) and Heike Seidler (costumes) … . The Mainz act provided outright confirmation of the statement spoken there long before: 'Contrary to Hitler's and Mussolini's view, operetta is productive, sensible, semi-healthy intoxication; collective orgasm even … '
"… A debonair scenario between power and art appear on the stage.
Credits
Staging
Anouk Nicklisch
Movement
Andrea K. Schlehwein
Set
Ilka Weiss
Costumes
Andrea Aeschlimann
Musical Direction
Enrico Delamboye
Clivia
Elizabeth Hagedorn
Photos by
Martina Pipprich
"It is fortunate that the Amazonian troupe of skirt-wearing men, parading under the command of Fräulein Lieutenant Jola, presciently distributed Kleenex packets in the audience: this production of Clivia is a most beautiful hankie-fest and the most recent demonstration that sentiment in art behaves toward pure expression like thermometer readings to felt temperature: felt feelings."
Bernhard Uske
translated by Hayley Glickfeld Bielman
Frankfurter Rundschau
20. October 2003