by Heinrich von Kleist
The first performance of Peter Tegel's translation with music composed and conducted by David Cain
"Das Käthchen von Heilbronn", written in 1807, is Kleist's excursion into the land of fairy tale, with knights and ladies, witches, angels and remarkable coincidences, but it is also a play that shows how we deceive ourselves when seemingly most awake. with Janet Maw as Kate, Nigel Stock as Theobald Friedeborn, Margaret Robertson as Kunigunde von Thurneck, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as the Nurse, Robert Eddison as the Emperor and David Buck as Friedrich Wetter, Count vom Strahl