Nationaltheater Mannheim / Schnawwl

Evelyn Glennie: Verena Saake
Mother/Doctor's receptionist/career advisor/Mrs. Rachlin: Jule Kracht
Father/Editor: Uwe Topmann
Roger/Teacher/Reporter/Second Doctor: Timo Senff
Colin/Doctor/Photographer: Jan Single

Charles Way: Playing from the Heart (ab 12 Jahren)

Producer: Annette Dorothea Weber
Staging: Janina Mendroch
Text Interpretation: Stefanie Jerg
Music Coordinator: Coordt Linke / Ellen Mayer

First Night: 13.1.2006

Evelyn dreams of becoming a musician only to learn from the doctors shortly after her twelfth birthday that she is doomed to deafness. But Evelyn doesn't feel deaf! She can still hear. She has subconsciously discovered that it's possible to feel music and not only hear it. She learns to use her own body as a sounding drum and can differentiate the notes and sounds around her. She refuses to attend the recommended school for the deaf where there are no music lessons. Music remains her biggest dream. She wants to be a percussionist. In spite of all her problems she practises and practises so that she can play with the school orchestra. Her exceptional talent doesn't go unnoticed and one day she really gets an invitation to study as a percussionist at the Royal Academy of   Music in London. Her career as a professional musician has begun! Charles Way (children's author) adapted Evelyn Glennie's autobiography into a stage version, which transports the audience   into a world of sounds, emotions and silence in which music is not only audiable but personnaly palpable.