For adults and children ages 10 and up | Duration: 90 minutes, no intermission | Language: nonverbal

Direction, Masks: Hajo Schüler | Associate Director: Anna Kistel | Set: Stéphane Laimé | Costumes: Mascha Schubert
Komposition: Vasko Damjanov, Almut Lustig | Music: Vasko Damjanov, Almut Lustig & Ensemble
performed by: Fabian Baumgarten, Lei-Lei Bavoil, Vasko Damjanov, Almut Lustig, Mats Süthoff

A FAMILIE FLÖZ production in co-production with Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Theater Duisburg, Stadttheater Schaffhausen | Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

All advance ticket sales are handled exclusively by the Theater Erfurt: Ticket hotline: 0361 2233155. Tickets are also available online.

FAMILIE FLÖZ has been revitalizing the art of mask theater and telling wordless stories for decades. They find greatness in the minutiae, giving a stage to the tragicomic failures of lovingly created characters. In their new play, three small universes emerge from nowhere. The Flöz characters devote themselves to their everyday worries, and three stories are born, held together by a narrator who is as speechless as he is incomprehensible.

The owner of a night convenience shop in the city, who, true to the motto of "I cost you nothing," goes the extra mile for the needs of his diverse customers. But running his business comes with a personal risk. Little by little, his own story is revealed. A man's mother is terminally ill, throwing his life off track. The hospital becomes the focal point of his identity crisis. A young woman searches for meaning by escaping to live in harmony with nature, but her apparent idyll in a remote forest cabin harbors dark secrets. Three people, each at a turning point in their lives. Everything they once knew is crumbling around them. Abysses are opening.

What will save them?

Credits:
Technical Director, Lighting: Reinhard Hubert | Sound Design: Giorgio de Santis | Illusion Design: Rocco Manfredi | Puppet Design: Lei-Lei Bavoil | Assistance Direction: Jelle de Wit | Assistance Set: Aron Feierabend | Internship Set, Props: Lio Mittel | Set Construction: Reinhard Hubert, Frank Fietzeck, Moritz Schick, Mario Seeger | Workshop Costumes: Marion Czyzykowski | Internship Costumes: Elisabeth Maurer | Tailoring workshop: Nadja Schmelzer, Paula Sarazin, Massiullaha Mollahzada | Internships to the Production: Max Frick, Asli Kaplan, Myriam Sutton | Coach Text: Caroline Scholz Ott | Head of Production: Peter Brix | Administration: William Winter | Tour Organisation: Mattia Carchedi | Booking: Gianni Bettucci | Artistic Directors Familie Flöz: Hajo Schüler, Michael Vogel
Thanks to: Rotes Pferd, MWB Berlin, Aureliusz Smigiel, Michael Ottopal

For adults and children ages 8 and up | Duration: 60 minutes, no intermission | Language: German

Concept: Nio, Melo & Salmenniemi | Direction: Kalle Nio | Choreography: Fernando Melo | Text: Harry Salmenniemi

Performers: Barbara Kanc, Winston Reynolds, Luigi Sardone in alternance with Iiro Näkki
Music & Sound Design: Samuli Kosminen | Costume Design: Georgina Spencer
Lighting Design: Johannes Hallikas | Stage manager / rigger: Hedda Liukkala
Head of lighting: June Horton-White | Tour technician: Emilie Largier
Photography & Trailer: Kalle Nio | Tour Booking & Management: Yellow Everything

Co-production: WHS / Kalle Nio, Helsinki Festival, Lutkovno Gledališče Ljubljana, Slovenia
Supported by: Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Saastamoinen Foundation

All advance ticket sales are handled exclusively by the Theater Erfurt: Ticket hotline: 0361 2233155. Tickets are also available online.

“Tempo“ is a captivating exploration of time: its acceleration, deceleration, and moments when it seems to stand still. At its core is a mundane event turned extraordinary, highlighting life’s fragility through moments of falling, stumbling, and near-accidents.

Directed by visual artist and magician Kalle Nio, with choreography by Fernando Melo and music by Samuli Kosminen, Tempo blends text, movement, and mesmerizing stage illusions where time reverses, gravity vanishes, and the laws of nature dissolve. Dreamlike, wordless scenes alternate with rhythmic compositions for prepared metronomes and Harry Salmenniemi’s poignant text about time’s strange elasticity.

Through magic and movement, “Tempo“ invites audiences to pause, reflect, and truly feel the present moment.