MEDIATHEK

"STEAM. The Fantasymusical" is a steampunk inspired musical written and produced by professionals for the amateur musical company "Musical Projekt Neunkirchen" in the german city of Neunkirchen.
Its the 8th originally composed musical since 2003 and with more than a hundred people, playing or working on and around the stage, it is extraordinary in its form in Germany.


// Synopsis //

What would this world look like if it took another path in a last moment in time?

This world is out of joint: In the kingdom of "Imorta", Queen Esteam has reigned for hundreds of years surrounded by her chosen ministers and her Court - a grotesque victorian system of greed, control addiction and the quest for immortality, even if worn out body-parts must be replaced with prostheses.

The "common people" of the "Aqua-Town" consists of mechanics and steam creators a frugal and contented society where thinking and independent actions are removed by the gracious dictatorship. The job of the workers is to always provide the rulers with new prostheses and especially with STEAM: the steam which the inhabitants of „Imorta“ need to gain and preserve their immortality.

Another part of the world has almost been forgotten in this system: "Aetherna", the realm of the nature spirits. They critically observe as people in „Aqua-Town“ and „Imorta“ will lose more and more of their humanity - and decide to intervene…

And suddenly people break out of the prison of their minds which had been controlled by Imorta ! All at once a new spark of being starts to glow in a dehumanised world! And for the first time, the question arises whether immortality really is the key to perfection …

Inspired by „Steampunk“ and the anthroposophic world of Rudolf Steiner, composer and author Francesco Cottone, composer Amby Schillo and author Ellen Kärcher wrote this thrilling fantasy musical whose enigmatic story is located not too far from our real world.