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"Peer, you’re a liar! " - or maybe he just does not know what is true? Peer Gynt swirls through his world, in a poetic, virtuosic, creative and risky way, always on the go to new stimuli and challenges. Seek his own? Be sufficient to himself ? To extinguish selfish impulses and go along with other people or principles? In this production, the figure of the 19th century is being catapulted directly into today, by the dance style and the songs.

This time, Sebastian Eilers, who is a very experienced choreographer in music theatre business, puts the art of song interpretation as a definitive stylistic device into his dance theater story. Henrik Ibsen's poetic art itself aroused Sebastian Eilers' and the composer Gerhard Schmitt's need to set it, the most unchanged as possible, into a song form. Ibsen also supplied the libretto, which was adapted by director Eilers and his ensemble, consisting of a female dancer, a male dancer and an actor.

From the beginning, there were some questions that Eilers and his Ensemble attempted to answer during the staging process: To what extent can the dance theater genre be mixed with the musical theater and create a new aesthetic, as well as a more meaningful physical presence of the protagonists? To which musical theater form can the final production most appropriately be assigned? Musical comedy (Singspiel), musical or even "The Threepenny Opera" ("Dreigroschenoper") The recitative quality of the song interpretations perhaps points to the latter. However, in the production "Peer, you're lying!", the text part of the spoken word is much less extensive and the choreography is at least equivalent. Do we obtain a new, separate category of musical theater here ?

"Peer, you’re a liar! " was conceptualized in two versions: First , for ensemble and live quartet , and secondly as a version in which the instrumental music is running from a player.
As you can see on the video, the premiere in January 2015 took place without a live band. A significant change in the resumption will be that a musician quartet will be integrated into the action on stage and now, to the already existing songs and the few other pieces of music, the "external" compositions will be exchanged by Gerhard Schmitt's original music.