New theatre format to revive cultural scene

Something good has arisen from the annoying corona lockdown: it seems to have inspired creativity and ingenuity. Gravity9, a non-profit organisation based in Zurich that implements art and cultural activities to promote and develop (super-)regional cultural life and cultural participation, is carrying out its latest project in the Gewürzmühle Zug: it is called " Ein Zuger Sommernachtstraum (A Zug Summer Night's Dream)" and will take place in the second half of August. Summarised in a few words, it is a sensual theatre evening combined with an outdoor picnic.

The Zug Operetta Summer has a successor:
in August there will be Shakespeare in the Gewürzmühle.

Further development of the Zuger Operetta Summer
The picnic will include selected culinary delights from local producers, which are made by a local cook especially for the theatre evening. "Our new format sees itself as a follow-up and artistic development of the Zug Operetta Summer, which closed its doors at the end of 2019 after about a decade of successful productions in the Gewürzmühle in Zug," explain the two organisers, Andres Esteban and Hannes Muik from Gravity9. The concept is similar to that of the operetta summer: the production transforms William Shakespeare's famous comedy into a 90-minute open-air theatre adaptation with four actors and two musicians playing piano and saxophone.

"Acting, classical singing and music, together with acrobatics, find a dynamic, cross-disciplinary coexistence in this production with the format of an international ensemble," say Esteban and Muik. "We are convinced that, with their midsummer night dream in August, they will pick people up exactly where the current crisis has created a considerable deficit." Program details will be published in this newspaper in good time.